Saturday Disappointments

Music: Alec Empire - I just wanna Destroy

I had made plans, with myself, all week to go to the pond thats at the top of the hill to take some pictures. Every time I drive by its so calm and peaceful. Except one day, as I was driving my wife to work I thought I saw something in the pond. I do a double take and think that I see a beaver swimming freely near the shore. I got excited and vowed to go on my day off. Saturday afternoon was rainy and full of drizzle, I patiently waited next to the window with camera in hand for a sunny break. My patience was answered at 4pm when the sun broke through, I tore through the door and jumped in the car.

My first stop was a flower bed downtown that was planted by the city its be a long time since I've taken any pictures of flowers (I used to do it on a regular basis while in school) that were planted by the city. Next, I haul ass up the hill to the pond. I parked across the road in the ball field and ran across 4 lanes of traffic to get to the area. As I'm walking towards the pond I can see a stream of ripples (much like I saw the previous day) going towards the center of the pond. I was behind brush and could not see what it was. I walked faster in hopes of coming around the corner before it was too far away. As I come around the corner, I see it.....

a duck, a green-headed mallard duck. All this time, dreaming about photographing a real beaver in its natural inner-city habitiat.... I find a duck.

New gadgetry

Music: Alec Empire - 22:24

I recently bought a new SLR camera, I've been drooling over getting one for about 3 years now and I have never been able to muster up the courage (read: cash) to purchase one. It wasn't until recently that I've been comparison shopping online to find exactly the one that I was looking for.

There were Sony 12MP and Nikon 14MP that were fairly reasonably priced, but for some reason my attention has always turned towards buying a Canon SLR. Don't ask me why as I have never picked one up or used one, heck most of the time when you get to a store to look at a camera all of the batteries are completely dead anyways.

About a week and a half ago, I finally caved. I had some extra money left over from tax season and put it towards some thing that I should have had when I did the wedding photos for a step-cousin-in-law.

When you get a camera, whats one of the first things that you take a picture of:

* family member?
* pet?
* loved one?
* your own face?

I took a picture of my face and had the image saved as a *Raw* photo so it wouldn't be compressed and distorted. I can tell you that on my right eye brow (because I cut off most of my face) I have 3 red hairs. Oh so much fun....

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