My camera died. I didn't realize it was on the brink of demise -- I thought it was only missing a few screws and needed a good battery charge. I thought that replacement screws and a good while on the charger would fix everything and that we could be friends again. Seems not to be because when I took it off the charger and walked outside to photograph the sun, it wouldn't work. It had a brand new battery purchased just a few months ago and the front was properly secured again but it wouldn't open, it wouldn't do anything.
So, off to Best Buy I go to replace my friend of several years now. This is the new camera I adopted.
I comes in other lovely colors but there were none left from the holidays. I am fine with basic black, however. Not such a change from my little Kodak whatever-it-was. I prefer little point and shoot cameras that I can carry in my purse to the large, dramatic, impressive equipment that all the men in the family carry. They all tote around these impossibly large cameras with larger lenses and we seem to have very few photos! I, on the other hand, happily snap away with my little camera and I like it that way.
I am not sure how this is going to go -- the relationship is too new, too untested. Right now the camera -- I haven't even decided on a name yet -- is asleep on the desk charging. As soon as it warms up a bit outside I will be taking her on a trial run to see what she can do. She is WiFi enabled -- whatever that means -- not sure how that will help me. I guess I can connect the camera directly to the computer and download the pics to the hard drive -- hmm..my netbook doesn't have a hard drive. Ok, maybe I can download them to Shotwell. Seems this is going to take some time spent with the manual -- I hate manuals but it least it actually came with one. One of my other options didn't have a manual but rather you had to download it from the computer.
So, there you go -- a new year, a new member of my purse family and a new learning curve. Hopefully this little camera will last as long as the other one did and that we will learn to live together peaceably.
Hope -- is that a good name for a camera?
Tuesday, January 05, 2016
Teaser Tuesday
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm.
Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
My teaser comes from "The House on Fortune Street" by Margot Livesey, page 199.
"For all her many visits to Abigail's house, Dara ha never seen the ground floor flat. As she bicycled over, she pictured it as similar to the upstairs: light, beautifully proportioned, tastefully decorated."
Hmmm..the upstairs sounds like something out of House Beautiful and it makes you wonder if the downstairs flat is somewhat of a dungeon.
This is where I am in the book at the moment. It has been a slow read, started in November and will be the first on my Goodreads challenge list for 2016. It is picking up and I am anxious to see how all the pieces fit together because it is truly like a puzzle.
Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
My teaser comes from "The House on Fortune Street" by Margot Livesey, page 199.
"For all her many visits to Abigail's house, Dara ha never seen the ground floor flat. As she bicycled over, she pictured it as similar to the upstairs: light, beautifully proportioned, tastefully decorated."
Hmmm..the upstairs sounds like something out of House Beautiful and it makes you wonder if the downstairs flat is somewhat of a dungeon.
This is where I am in the book at the moment. It has been a slow read, started in November and will be the first on my Goodreads challenge list for 2016. It is picking up and I am anxious to see how all the pieces fit together because it is truly like a puzzle.
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