25th High School Reunion Pix

I was in India in December visiting my family and got a chance to attend my 25th high school reunion. It was a well organized event thanks to the efforts put in by Bobby, Ashish, Prashant et al. I was surprised that 21 (out of a class of 43) students attended. It was indeed great to see and talk to old friends, some of them I hadn't seen in 25 years. Unfortunately, I had to leave early since I was the prime caregiver for Leena during my visit and there wasn't any way she was going to go to bed without me.
Some of us met a little early at the school and got a chance to meet some of our teachers (they don't seem to have aged!) that are still there, walk around the school premises, and even sit down in one of the classrooms. I have to say it was very strange to sit down on the classroom benches after all these years. It did bring back a lot of memories though.

For my visit to India, I wanted a non-SLR camera that had a decent zoom, wide-angle, image quality, small size (should fit in my pocket), and a large LCD. The Panasonic Lumix ZS3 seemed to fit the bill. Most reviews on the web were very favorable for all the features that I cared about. So I went ahead and bought it. I have taken some excellent pictures with the camera both inside and outside, but with good ambient light. The pictures I took at the reunion with that camera unfortunately didn't turn out well. The pictures were taken inside with not so great light. Most of the pix got taken at a very high ISO and have an unacceptable amount of noise. As much as I would like to blame the camera, it is due to "operator error". I relied too much on the "intelligent auto" and "iPotrait" modes and should not have. Oh well, lesson learned. Here are the pix. The better news is that there was a profession photographer at the event, so it wasn't a wasted opportunity.