Flotsam
I’m still here, haven’t slit my wrists over the BCS thing.
After not taking my kayak out for months, except for the short, scenic paddle on new year’s, I went out with some folks last Saturday and did 10 miles, a stirring re-introduction. The weather gave us one of everything - rain, 15-knot wind, brilliant sunshine, glass-like calm. I didn’t get many photos, but managed this short video of a quirky, fascinating wind machine that was attached to a floating home on Lake Union:
I’m starting to be unhappy with this bag I bought to protect my camera on the water. Canon makes some really nifty waterproof cases for many of its cameras, but won’t make one for the S3 IS. The bag works fine as a protective device, but it’s nearly impossible to work any of the controls on the camera in a timely fashion and, as you can see from the video, it’s hard to keep the camera oriented properly. Maybe I just need more practice.
On not-so-dry land this week, I headed out to work one morning, pressed for time as usual, and encountered a formidable scraping job on my car windows. Made for a couple of nice photos, though:
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That’s all I gots right now.
We’ve finally bought an Eos. Just waiting for the first serious freeze-up to get some winter pics done.
Ten miles…the way I feel right now, I don’t think I could drive that far, much less kayak that distance. Every other breath is a sneeze. Nice photos; they cause me to be happy I don’t often have to scrape the windows.
Dick - you’re going to have some fun with that! Hope you’ve got a lot of disk storage - those files are going to fill space quickly! I dabble now & then with the idea of an SLR, but so much of the photography I do is on-the-fly opportunistic, and I’m not sure I’d carry a camera bigger than my S3 IS. Still, those things are cool.
John - we don’t either. It’s always a surprise. Hope you recover soon.