These pictures are from my first night here in San Francisco from my new Nikon D3000. This place is just gorgeous. I'm going to keep adding my favorite pictures to this set on my flickr page. Check it out here.

                                             

I'm in San Francisco for the winter break to meet a lot of friends. Guess who is based a half mile from where I'm putting up? =D I had lunch with the Posterous bunch, helped assemble some new furniture, followed by this great Christmas cake. These guys are just awesome. I'm going to be in town for a good couple of weeks so multiple visits here are guaranteed. So psyched!

   

And I loved it.

Yeah, it's been a couple weeks since I did this and I had wanted to write about it earlier but, you know, school came in the way. 

It was my *first ever* outdoor activity and for that I think I did fairly well. No, I didn't manage to go all the way up the "beginner-level" (my ass!) climb, but half-way up wasn't bad considering the bike ride up Baseline Rd. killed me before I even got to the Gregory Canyon trail head. And I promise you, I could've gone a lot higher had the drizzle not made the rock as slippery as it was. At the end of the day, if you ask me, I was surprised I could lift my weight at all :)

I want to thank my classmate Ryan Mazer and his friends for organizing this awesome outing for us. I totally need to do this again.

I'm hoping for more Boulder awesomeness as my life here continues. I really couldn't be happier. And I promise I'm going to post more often.

                                     

I'm so damn excited about this. Photography has long been something I've wanted to take seriously, but never found the time or opportunity for it back in Mumbai. Boulder, to me, is an ideal location for someone with a passion for photography. It's just so freakin beautiful!

So, today I joined the Boulder Photography Club at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU). It's a simple student club on the CU campus that has a whole bunch of undergrads. I don't care, it's still the best opportunity I've got to pursue photography. That too for just 15 bucks for the whole year, haha.

No, I'm not a great photographer, far from it in fact. I'm still going to run around with my trusty point-n-shoot (Canon SD800IS), that I love dearly. The goal is to understand photography from a technical standpoint, get a grip of exposure, ISO, shutter-speed, what have you, and figure out when to use what. I also want to learn some basic post-processing techniques in Photoshop or whatever (yep, I don't know how to use Photoshop). Once I'm down with all that, I'll unquestionably graduate to a dSLR; I just feel the need to be ready for it.

As I've been saying about everything Boulder these days - so psyched!