Family Beach Pictures

Took my kid to the beach last weekend. It was her first time to see the "big water" and that got me thinking about how much digital photos have changed the landscape of family snapshots. I can literally count on my fingers the number of surviving beach pictures I have of me and my family but my kid is going to have gigabytes of hard drive pics to chose from. Wonder if she'll still think of them as treasures like I think of my beach pics.

My Gear

Recently went to GDGT.com which allows you to list your gadgets. It then provides news, updates and inputs from other users who have the same gadgets. So for the first time I will admit, my cameras are old. Looking at the Canon 7D though (fingers crossed).

I have a Canon 350D (as my back-up), a Canon 30D as my main camera, an Ixus 860IS for snapshots and a Leica SL2 for nostalgic reasons (my dad's old camera, he was a bit of a gadget freak too).

Chek out the site.

Cheap Thrills . . . .

Some of the most rewarding things while I travel include finding cheap thrills. In Hong Kong this means taking the Star Ferry across the harbor but in India this means taking a tuktuk. Here's the best way to go about it in Udaipur. Go to the Mandi Market in the middle of town, get yourself totally lost, just keep going down streets and narrow alleys. When you're tired of walking, hail down a tuktuk and ask him to bring you to your next destination. You'll love the sights that'll go past you and you'll be amazed where this tuktuk can fit into. Sometimes it's a narrow alleyway, other times it's just the oncoming traffic, but don't close your eyes, you might miss something exciting going past you.