Road Trip to Vermont - my 1st road trip in the US

This was my first ever big road trip in the US and also my first holiday outing in the US. Till then I had never gone too far from Boston on the highways. I was still very scared of the speeds on the highways. I think this was also my first trip outside Massachusetts.

Sometime in the late winter of 2003, the sun was just showing up on a rare day but the air was still chilly and big coats were definitely the dress code for the days if you planned to stay outside for long. The snow had not yet started melting except on a good hot day when just the surface was melting. We lived for three days in a nice two floor wooden cottage. The cottage was located on a big sloping mountain side and right next to the cottage was a huge barn. I did not notice any animals in the barn except for the one daring horse which ventured out into the sun to meet us (and lick our hands). 4 miles away was Lake Dunmore. This was a huge lake whose surface had completely frozen over thick and we walked on it :-) About half a mile away was a village (whose name I do not recollect) with lots of local diners and small shops. The setting was near perfect and below are a few snaps taken using the Kodak EasyShare DX3700.

The First Snow of my life - Northeastern University

27th November 2002, a bright Wednesday as I recall it. This was the first time ever that I saw snow in my whole life. Being from a tropical country, snow was something which I had only seen on TV before. That day morning was a mild snow storm. The first one that Winter in Boston. In fact I was outside when the first flakes started floating down. In the evening I went to the university with my brother's digital camera which was some old Kodak EasyShare DX3700. I did not have a digital camera by then, only my good old Olympus iS200.

The pictures below were taken on that day at the university at about 5PM, just before my Biochemistry class :-)

Old Sturbridge Village

The Old Sturbridge Village is an artificial village set in the period of late 1700s and early 1800s. It is a complete setting with real people enacting the lives of people as they lived in those days (including shades of the crazy Victorian English :-) These are snaps I took of the place when I visited it in 2003. The photos were taken using my film based Olympus iS200 and digitized using an UMax Astra 4100 scanner. I wish I remembered more details of the individual buildings.

Purpose of this blog

I like taking photos. But I am not a professional and have not ever received any training. Most of the things I learnt about photography and cameras were from my own experience, some common sense, laws of physics and tips from junta.

I plan to use this blog as a venue to post some of the photos I have taken and share them with my friends (and everyone else). Of course some feedback will be very much helpful.

As of today my camera is a Minolta Dimage A200. Most of the digital pictures were taken using it. Prior to that I had an Olympus iS200 which was a film camera. Most of the scanned pictures come from it.

The digital photos were not processed in any way i.e. they were they were not modified by any software or other means. Even the scanned photos were just plain vanilla scanned and no processing was done on them. While I have nothing against processing photos, I think such photos represent your processing software skills better than your photographic skills.