Monday, May 5, 2008

Thing # 11- LibraryThing!

Task 11 is complete! I have signed up at LibraryThing, added my titles and even tagged some. I really like this service and always sort of wanted to keep track of everything I've read over the years. The only thing is, I tend to be old fasioned and would like nothing more than a nifty new journal to handwrite everything in :-)

Thing # 10- Techno Blog! Woooohoooo!

Sooooo, to blog about something technology related eh?? I am a photography buff and got a new digital camera last year. It was like pulling teeth to get me to switch over from my trusty film camera to this device that was like a computer and camera all in one. I bought a Canon Rebel Xti which is just amazing and have more lenses for it than one human being should ever own in a lifetime. I normally just put my camera together and go, but this time that was not the case. This camera had SOOO many buttons, features, and options that I actually had to read the manual that came with it! (Can you imagine??) I never read the directions, EVER, but this was a must in order to learn how to operate my new toy successfully. It is still a love hate relationship, but we're learning to work with one another. There is something about digital photography that takes the art out of "photography" itself. Why even bother taking the photo if all you are going to do is edit the daylights out of it and lose what you were originally trying to capture? Anyone can take a picture and photoshop it. But not everyone can catch something at just the right time, in just the right light, and have a brilliant photo of someone or something in it's rawest form.
Here are some photo's taken using both of my cameras.