Portland downtown with Hawthorne Bridge on Willamette river in the foreground. Shot from Marquam Bridge druing Portland Bridge Pedal cycling event in summer 2005. Shot with Nikon Coolpix 4500 point-and-shoot camera.

This beautiful pink Hibiscus flower was in Mitchell Park Domes in Milwaukee, WI. We were visiting a friend there in Spring 2004. Hibiscus flowers come many colors including blood red and white, but this color is very interesting. Shot with Nikon Coolpix 4500 point-and-shoot camera in macro mode.

Macro mode. Matrix metering.

This photo was shot on a hiking trail (Angel’s Rest) in Columbia Gorge. I spotted this very small spider on the flowers trying to weave a web (look carefully you can see it too in the photo). Shot with Nikon Coolpix 4500 point-and-shoot camera. July 2003.

Macro Mode. Matrix Metering

I like to shoot macro shots of flowers. Flowers with bright intense colors look very nice. This photo is interesting because the angle is different. Instead of the usual practice of shooting flower photos from top looking down, I put the camera below the flower “looking” up towards the sky. Shot with Nikon Coolpix 4500 point-and-shoot camera. This camera had a swivel back panel so I could compose the photo when the camera was held low near the ground looking up. July 2003.

Program Auto mode. Center-weighted metering.

This is a cute photo of Isha (my daughter) with her mother (Shraddha) and her grandmother. June 2003. Lake Tahoe, California, USA. Shot with Nikon Coolpix 4500 point-and-shoot camera.

Program Auto mode and Matrix metering.

Lake Tahoe in an awesome sight. This photo was actually shot by Shraddha in a hurry while we were just finishing a drive around the lake perimeter. This road goes all around the lake and this portion of the road is quite higher (in many places it’s at the water level). Shot with Nikon Coolpix 4500 point-and-shoot camera.

Auto Program mode, Matrix metering.

A rose drenched in rain. Summer 2002. Shot with Nikon Coolpix 4500 point-and-shoot camera.

In August 2002 I bought my first digital camera. This was Nikon Coolpix 4500 with 4MP sensor. It was a slow-as-a-dog point and shoot, but produced good images. These are some of the first pictures I shot. Some of the backyard flowers.