Digital Camera @ MindSay

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Today mam had arranged for me to go to Paul & Leanne's house to take photos for my relationships project for Photography. I'd asked if I could take some photos of Leanne and their two kids Melody and Aiden.
This was a challenge - especially with kids always being on the move.
It annoyed me as well, the perfect shot was always in my viewfinder - WHEN THE CAMERA HAD STALLED. Or when it was LOADING.

Slow digital cameras, who'd have 'em...
Anyway, we spent a few hours there - I've taken about 140 photos, and there looks to be quite a few decent ones - and quite a few hilariously fucked ones. :)

So here's eight that I've uploaded and done some work with:

*I had a dream that my cat saved a lot of people.  I think I missed him when we were gone overnight.

*I think it's time to buy a digital camera.  I don't really want a pink one, but I do want it now.  And pink seems to be the only non-black one in store.

*I should really go to the gym now.

*I have loads of laundry to do.

*I still have today and tomorrow that I don't have to go to work.  Tuesday will suck though.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16830180146

This is the one I want to get... once I find that job....

I had a couple of things I planned to blog about, but I wanted to download some pictures from my husband's camera to do them but now I can't.  When I got interested in photography again a year or so ago, my husband started in that he wanted to do it too, but since he has trouble seeing  and dealing with holding a larger heavier camera I got him a nice digital camera for his birthday this year, just point and shoot with a large enough image display that I thought he could manage using it.  Well it came with the software and user manuals and I left those in the box and put it on his desk.  My mistake.  He apparently decided to do his version of "cleaning" and threw away the camera box with the user manuals and software cds in them.  So I located the user manual to download online but the software I am having difficulty finding.....sigh  so now he is sitting at his desk all mad because I asked him why he would throw away the camera box without checking to make sure there was nothing in it. Both of the manuals and the cds were smaller than the box so whenever you picked the box up the stuff slid around in the box so I don't understand why he wouldn't think to look and see what was in the box before he tossed it.  So now he is mad. I will have to see if I can find the software online or contact Canon to purchase another copy of it.  So no pictures for a while

• Is there a such thing as a cheap, inexpensive hobby?  (Get your mind out of the gutter Josie!)  About seven or eight years ago I took up salsa / merengue dancing as my new hobby.  I knew I had to pay for classes, but they were only $30 a month.  What broke me was the fact that I needed a new wardrobe to go with it.  You have to have the right shoes and the right skirts.  The shoes are obvious. Women do a lot of turns and you need shoes that permit turning without making you fall on your ass.  You also need a skirt that moves with you without showing everyone your Brazillian wax job.  Pants just don't look as good as skirts and dresses when you are doing Latin dances. 

Anyway, my new hobby is photography. I have a great camera that I purchased from a pawnshop.  I can get some pretty good shots, but what I really need is a telephoto lens.  Alas, there is no telephoto lens that fits my camera model.  No problem, I thought, I just saw a really cool gadget that is a set of binoculars with a built in digital camera.  I bought it and the pictures look like SHIT! I'd have to be in direct sunlight to get a decent photo! I was very disappointed. After all, I've managed to get some good shots with my camera phone for crying out loud.  This gadget takes pictures that look like those fuzzy pictures you see of criminals who've gotten caught by a store security camera! Sacre bleu!  What I really have is a pretty decent pair of binoculars.  Screw you Vivitar! Now I'm on the look out for a digital camera with a very good telephoto lens.  Like I have the money for that! Waaahhh!

 

• Does anybody know someone who's giving away a bed? The bed we sleep on has been my husband's for over 20 years.  The other day the box spring bit the dust.  Today, I took the mattress off, flipped over the box spring, got some wooden planks and nailed it up. It'll hold temporarily -- I think.  I've been scanning Craig's List daily. We'll see what comes up.

 

• Easter is way too early this year!

 

• I'm really not impressed with American Idol this year, but I was really impressed with  resable's recent top blog post. Okay, that was a terrible segue, but she is dead on with her belief that just because you don't jump into heated political discussions or blog about politics on a daily basis doesn't mean you don't have an opinion. Hell even I keep my opinion to myself sometimes!  Sometimes you just don't feel like getting into it with other people. Sometimes you just want to laugh at the antics of your silly online friends and complain about the poor movie selection we have to choose from these days!