Right on! Right on!

So I now have a new toy to play around with and if you haven’t already guessed, it’s the Canon EOS 400D with a 28-135mm Macro lens.

Yep, I also have a nice grip attached at the bottom. (No, this is not a picture of MY camera)

I have my father to thank for this. Thanks Dad!

As a kid, I never really apprecaited photography.

My father is a very good photographer. National Geographic magazine and a few other magazines (including the Jet Airways in house magazine, some Photography magazines, etc..) have featured my dad’s photographs including some articles he’s written about wild life and photography.
However, as a kid I never truly appreciated this hobby/passion of his.

Of course, that could have to do with the fact that my father really wanted me to pick up his favourite hobby and so he used to push me to like it back when I was a kid and I couldn’t have cared less about photography.
Also, the waking up at 4 in the morning, in the frigid Himalayas, to go take photographs of some obscure random flower that did not want to be found combined with the hours that we had to wait just so the sun would be at the right spot, so that the light would be perfect for the photograph so as to do justice to the beauty of the flower.. etc etc. You get my drift.

As a kid, I didn’t really appreciate all this trouble just to take a ’silly’ photograph.

As it is with all things, time changes everything. I now appreciate the effort my father took to make a photograph look good. I’m even glad in a somewhat resentful way that he dragged me along for those photography sessions of his. If nothing else, I’ve at least learned that patience and endurance will pretty much get you what you desire.

Now to try out some nice cool things with my new camera: Light Graffiti, HDR photo manuplation, etc.. Here are a few examples…

__________________Above - Light Graffiti - Below - HDR Photos ______________________

I pulled these photographs from Abduzeedo, and none of them are mine. Full credit to their respective authors and props to them too.