I finally bought a digital camera. I’ve wanted one for a long time. I even wrote about feeling envious when a friend bought his new digital camera last month.
I fretted about this purchase for weeks and drove myself crazy reading reviews and comparing brands. I always do this to myself. I researched my last two cars for two years prior to buying them. It took me over six months of reading reviews before I finally bought my Amazon Kindle.
Standing in Best Buy, with one of the top-rated $600+ digital cameras in my hand, I just couldn’t bring myself to spend that kind of money. I wasn’t an avid photographer. I just wanted a camera to play with, that was easy to use, one that the kids would stop walking away in disgust when they asked ‘let me see’ and realized I didn’t have a digital display and, finally, I just wanted something simple so I could put post pictures here, on my website.
I threw caution to the wind (well as best as I knew how) and for the next hour picked up, held, turned on and took pictures with just about every digital camera under $200 they had on display. (I deliberately avoided the really nice, expensive cameras.)
I settled on a silver Sony Cybershot DSC-S950 with 10.1 mega pixels, a 4x optical zoom and a 2.7″ LCD screen.
Here are some of my first attempts…
My office at ‘work’…
My office at ‘home’…
‘Work’ office is bigger, but ‘home’ office is more comfy.
Picture of a Picture…
This pictures hangs in my home office. It is a page torn from a coloring book of an ice cream cone I colored when I was 4-years and 5-months old. That’s a picture of me in the corner at the same age.
I colored ‘in the lines’, using almost every crayon in the box, with boundaries well defined for each patch of color.
This reminds me that who I am, is who I’ve always been. I am orderly, precise and neat, a left-brained trait that coexists easily with my right-brained traits of a love of bright colors, the ability to see the whole picture, as well as its parts, and a creative streak that needs to be expressed.
A work in progress…
Last fall, while sitting outside under the shade and tree’s, I decided I wanted to paint.
I went to the craft store to buy myself a gift. It took hours to decide. A beginners acrylic paint set, including black and white and a rainbow of bright colors, jumbo toothpicks to write with, an assorted pack of multi-sized brushes and a virgin wooden box just waiting for me to cover it.
I sat outside and painted all day, but still didn’t finish it…maybe someday.
Symbols of a dream, a mission, a journey…
A dream…a simple black frame decorated with symbols that remind me of a cafe, The Dreaming Cafe.
A mission…a quote, that when I first read it, thought, “that’s me”.
A journey…a golden globe that symolizes beauty, adventure and exploration of the unknown.
The quote:
“To grow, to learn, to experience, to contribute, to share, to be intensely in the moment in which you are living, to get the most out of everything that happens to you and to realize that we are all here to contribute and share.” Helen Nearing
Comment or reply below. (Be gentle, these are my first ever pictures with a my new digital camera.)
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