I took two pics in the hospital garage as I was leaving.
The interesting thing is the big black dot in the lower right quadrantish. I thought that was a dead spot on the LCD screen. Turns out it’s not just on the screen. Uh oh.
Garage
Tag: coolpix
View
Dad is sleeping so here is the view from his window.
Annoyed Cat
Patches is really sick of modeling for me.
Squee, Again
Check it out, kids…
That’s my DSLR with one of Dad’s old manual lenses. It connects, the viewfinder sees through the lens. I can’t set the aperture in the camera like I do with my lenses, but I can set the camera to manual focus and set the aperture on the lens and still set the shutter speed in the camera. I can’t use the light meter, but I have one on my iPhone that seems pretty accurate.
Want to see if it works?
Oh yeah, it works!
I tried taking a second picture and came up with this turd…
I promise that this is out of focus because the shutter speed was slow and my hand shook a little, not because I did something wrong with the manual focus… though that would be a good guess based on how many of my film pics are out of focus.
Now I have to work up the courage to try using Dad’s 50mm prime lens. Woah, nelly!
Apple Cat
Patches has control of the Apple TV remote and she won’t let it out of her sight, even when she’s using the MacBook.
Scenes from a Cart Corral
The grocery store was insanely busy. I mean busy like you wouldn’t believe.
Cart Corral Before pic, from when I first pulled into the parking lot…
Cart Corral pic from when I got back into the car to go home…
Note the not so subtle difference.
Pumpkin Lights
This will be on the front step on Halloween.
The little light I put inside flickers a little as if it was a candle.
We Live Here Now
We live at Home Depot now. Lowes Home Improvement too.
Errands
Get ready for a riveting post about my time out of the house running errands today!
First stop was the Methuen Police Station where I participated in early voting for the November mid-terms and took this artistic masterpiece of a park bench pic, complete with the shadow of my huge head.
Next stop was Lowes where I did a curbside pickup of something for the kitchen and some pet-safe mouse traps because mice.
Also, what the hell is this thing?
Next stop was the gas station where I got some gas. I took this because I want to be one of the cool kids on youtube who always take pictures of gas stations at night using CineStill 800T film.
The next stop, as alluded to in a previous post today, was the jewelry store where I picked up my resized wedding ring (it’s a little tight, but that’s good) and Jen’s repaired engagement ring.
Obligatory pic-of-the-side-mirror pic.
Next stop was the grocery store where I took the now obligatory cart corral series pic.
Finally, while at the grocery store I bought some bird seed to fill up the bird feeders.
After this I ate lunch and carved a pumpkin. What a day! I also watched a Bond movie last night and then watched another one while carving said pumpkin. Could it be that after the stupidity that was Moonraker, they made a pretty good all around movie in For Your Eyes Only? I mean, I’ve seen all of these movies 100 times each, but I don’t think I ever watched them in order and I was really surprised how much better For Your Eyes Only is than all of the previous Roger Moore movies. Also, it’s a Game of Thrones episode. The bad guy is played by the actor who played Grand Maester Pycelle, and one of his henchmen is played by non other than Tywin Freakin’ Lannister! I did not see that coming at all!
Black and White
In honor of the possibility of me putting a roll of black and white film into Dad’s camera tomorrow, here is a black and white photo of a black and white cat.
Inside the Red Head's Head 