New Camera!

Anybody that knows me knows I take a gazillion photos. I love my Sony Cyber Shot for the ease of use and most of the bells and whistles (movie mode, manual abilities), but I wanted to be more artistic and DH Bob wanted more telephoto abilities.

So after months of research and intense negotiation with DH (we plan to buy two bodies and share the lenses, so we needed to agree on a system), last weekend I ordered a DSLR Nikon D80 and watched the shipment tracking across the country with a lot of excitement! Got it Friday and was shooting before dark. I had family commitments yesterday but today after it warms up some (it's 21 degrees now) I'm heading out to a nearby nature center to see what I can see. Which probably won't be much for a few weeks, but that's not the idea; the idea is to get familiar with all the controls. Next weekend a friend and I will head up north to an area where migrating snow geese congregate.

I always wondered at those photographers who rattled of the details of what lens setting, aperture, etc. with each pic; how could they write everything down when snapping so quickly? Find out the shooting details are recorded with these cameras! Duh . . . but boy will that help me learn!

Spring (almost)

This says it well and applies to Michigan as well as the South!

Summer in the South

The Oriole sings in the greening grove
As if he were half-way waiting,
The rosebuds peep from their hoods of green,
Timid, and hesitating.
The rain comes down in a torrent sweep
And the nights smell warm and piney,
The garden thrives, but the tender shoots
Are yellow-green and tiny.
Then a flash of sun on a waiting hill,
Streams laugh that erst were quiet,
The sky smiles down with a dazzling blue
And the woods run mad with riot.

Paul Laurence Dunbar