Category: Photography
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Project 365: Trying it Again!
For those of you who don’t know what Project 365 is, the below link is a good site to learn about it: http://content.photojojo.com/tutorials/project-365-take-a-photo-a-day/ I discovered a lot about myself in the year I did Project 365 the first time in 2007. I started November 1st and finished on Halloween of 2008. In the end, I…
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Another Year, another project
One of the things I really enjoyed about 2008 was looking back over all of the photos captured in my Project365. I could look back and see something from each day and remember what happened that day. As I get older (and time passes faster) it’s nice to have some record of what happens in…
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Project365 commencement
I’ve started a new project in November called Project365. The idea behind it is taking a photo a day for one year. Being a leap year, it’s more like Project366, but 365 works better for me. Some folks do a theme each month or something of similar sorts to keep the project interesting to keep…
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My Replacement Friend is in
Thanks to the miracle known as eBay my replacement friend arrived about a week ago. What is it do you ask? A gently used Powershot S50. I paid $90 for the camera and $30 for an extended battery so I’ve got an essentially new camera for about 1/2 the cost of a new one. Yeah…
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Why can’t I just get the next Powershot S50?
It’s been a great camera. We’ve taken a lot of pictures together and have been a lot of places, but it’s time to move onto bigger and better things. The camera almost always comes with when I’m on the bike, so being compact is really important. An SLR is too big. I’ve looked for it’s…
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Panoramic Photography
Being one that likes to take landscape shots, at times you just cannot convey the depth of the scene in a 4×6 shot. You can’t really get a good sense for the skyline or how for instance the mountains fit into the mountain range…. The great thing about digital photography is that you can do…