Room Lighting

My little Casio point and shoot camera doesn’t handle room level lighting all that well. Miss Lilly Pad the Kitty/Gremlin helps me demonstrate.

No flash, room lighting. The three pics I didn’t post were all too blurry to use.

The flash clears things up but it doesn’t look very good.

I looked at the Best Buy website for point and shoot cameras. They are too expensive and Nikon doesn’t make anything that I would be interested in. What about Ricoh? They own Pentax, and one of the film cameras is a Pentax. That could work in the keeping-it-in-the-family respect. Do they make any pocket sized point and shoots?

Sunshine Lily

Lily is enjoying the rare ray of sunshine, now that the rain has stopped.

Random Thursday Thoughts

Just jotting down some smallish, random thoughts on a Thursday afternoon.

My stomach is being a jerk today. Gas. Bad gas. Lots of bad gas. My stomach is a bit upset. A little bit of pain. Nothing bad, just gassy. Super gassy. Pardon the T.M.I. of it all. I just felt the need to share.

In the interest of daily creative behavior like the photo a day challenge and my current 1400+ day posting streak on this little bloggie, I was wondering if I should post a daily haiku. What do you think?

One haiku each day
You know, to keep the brain loose
Could be worth a shot

I have watched a lot of Doctor Who today. Like, an alarming amount of Doctor Who. A frightening amount of Doctor Who. Both the original series and the new series. So much Doctor Who. I may have a Who problem.

We brought Harry’s car to the shop today. Here’s hoping they get the work finished before he has to go back to work next week. I may have to drive him back to Burlington after I finish work one night, and then turn around and drive home right away. That could be a long night. I will do it with a smile on my face, but… yeah, that would be a long night.

The cats have been super affectionate today. I am not sure why. It doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, but it is definitely a welcome development.

Photo-a-Day Cats

There are only two weeks left in this photo-a-day challenge. My forth consecutive year’s worth of bad pictures. On September 1st, do I start year five? A little part of me was thinking of doing year five on film. I still might, but it will be a ton more difficult, and it will be crazy expensive. I was thinking of taking a digital pic and a similar film pic each day to sort of remind myself of when each film pic was taken. I don’t know. I still might try it. I think it would require quite a bit of tripod fun if I did it on slow film. We’ll see.

Point and Shoot Sadness

I didn’t use my Nikon point and shoot at all over the weekend. I took it out of the back pack on the drive home and much to my sadness, the lens cover was damaged somehow. It won’t close when the camera is off and it won’t open all the way when the camera is on. I can’t seem to fix it.

Looks like my official point and shoot camera is now the little Casio that Jen bought me as an engagement present. I used it for today’s photo-a-day, more in a symbolic way than anything else.