Another successful Mother’s Day has come and gone. I guess what that mostly means is that after all is said and done I am still a mother with a child and we’re still speaking but it was better than that. It was fun. Today my daughter and her friend are cleaning my house as a gift. Score! No, really, it’s wonderful and I am so grateful.
I got a new camera for Mother’s Day. My old camera has a broken lens cover and discards a random 1/4 of the photos I take so this will be a welcome change. I don’t think it will take much work to figure out how to point and shoot a new one, since I don’t really do anything more complicated than that. Although there are a couple of things that worry me. The new camera automatically finds and focuses on people’s faces. This tells me that if I take a picture of scenery with a person anywhere in it I will have permanent records of strangers’ faces as opposed to the grandeur of the mountains or beaches behind them. Not only that, the smile timer shoots automatically when the subject smiles, so every stranger in my photos will look happy, no matter how fleeting a grimace it may be that crosses their face. The blink proof feature automatically takes two pictures and saves the one in which the subject’s eyes are open so each stranger will look alert. Oh, and the in-camera red eye fix repairs red-eyes while shooting. This will come in handy at my family gatherings when people have been sucking up wine all evening.
I can’t wait to practice with my new camera! In the meantime, this is what my dresser looks like as shot from my bed.
Mon, May 10, 2010
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