Jan 14, 2004 – Trinity River – Irving, TX My first serious digital camera, as mentioned yesterday, was the Minolta DiMage A1. It had most everything that I needed. It didn’t have interchangeable lenses, but had a zoom and a macro mode. I cut my photographic teeth, so to speak, on ‘glass’. I had SLRs, [...]
Tony and Grandpa: December 2003. Tony was 11 This photo was shot with my Minolta DiMage A1. This was my first ‘serious’ digital camera. It weighed in at almost 5 MP and about $1,200. I thought of this camera when Ken made this comment to yesterday’s post about having the latest camera equipment: It’s a [...]
Cloud shadows Before I start this post, I just wanted to say that I’d never seen cloud shadows in the sky before. Yesterday, on my morning walk, I happened to look up and see the shadow of one cloud projected upon a thin layer of clouds. I thought it quite cool, indeed! The day a [...]
Farewell, my friend Though a few days behind, I was rather surprised, as I was getting caught up with my fellow bloggers, to find that Cedric, author of Plop, said that he was exiting the blogging game. I’m not really sure when I came upon Cedric’s blog, but I was sure glad that I did. [...]
Hmmmm. I wonder if he’s trying to tell me something? Strike One A couple of weeks ago my son, Pedro, called to ask if everything was alright. I assured him that things were, but I was quite puzzled as to why he would call and ask me such a thing. I had just left the [...]
I have Facebook, Twitter, and a blog. I don’t have a Flickr account, but just keeping up with these things takes a lot of time. Recently, I accepted an invitation from someone to join Google Plus, or G+. I’ve been looking at it for several days, trying to get a handle on who it works. [...]
If I were to put a label on the type of photography that I participate in at this time in my life, I would call it “Casual Photography”, or perhaps even “Carefree Photography”. I used to get up early, grab the tripod, go out to get the shot. I used on an SLR or a [...]
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