Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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Here are some of my first snapshots with my new D70. These are all taken of a fire hydrant down the street. One of the things I love to take pictures of are man made objects that are victims of nature.
I absolutely love this camera. It's been many years since I owned a Nikon SLR. My first ever camera was a Nikon 2020 that I got in the 4th grade (which is when my love for photography began). I shot mostly Black & White and developed it myself till about college. I later got a Nikon N55 which was a nice improvement on the 2020. Nikon has added a ton more features to SLRs since then and I have a lot to learn. Most of the basic controls are the same but there are some super nifty features like predictive auto focus, depth of field preview, etc. Having a digital SLR is actually quite an experience since you get the benefits of looking through a quality lens, instant gratification from preview allowing you to really perfect the shot. I also happen to love the Instant On and quick response of this camera.