Falling in love again...can't help it...

Yep...it's another new camera post.  I can't help it.  It's pretty slow around here and treasure like this REALLY pulls my attention and makes me want to play and play.  As it's a school day...playing opportunities are not quite as abundant as I'd like...but I've got these little models that I can snatch away from almost ANY planned thing...and they'll stand there all cute like...

For instance...my second child...my lil sunshine girl...she turned 9 last week, maybe you didn't know.  Anyway, for her birthday she received a ball of yarn and a crochet hook and the promise that her friend would teach her to crochet.  So she brought said ball of yarn and crochet hook to church on Sunday and sat cross-legged on the floor between services with her creative little friend and the two of them taught my Bear to chain.  And then she CHAINED, by crackie.

So I took this picture of her...the first one is STRAIGHT out of the camera...her eyes looked so pretty I thought I'd bump the saturation a skosh...I was right...TOTALLY made me happy.

  

Then there is this house...


Monkey Face got this house sometime after Christmas because it was on sale for 5 bucks...and I thought it might keep her busy for two minutes put together...



But...it's been in pieces stuffed over by the piano since shortly after she got it...because it wasn't finished....or so I thought.  The reality was they'd gotten tired of trying to color the ginormous thing with the 8 sad little markers that kept running out of ink.  (What is with the tired markers that come in these things?  I mean I got it for 5 dollars but somebody else bought it for $19.99...doesn't $19.99 warrant some REAL markers? ... But I digress)

So because I just knew that if I set it up they'd play in it and maybe they'd be cute er sumthin...and then I could pull out my new camera and snap-ety snap away...I set it up.  Ulterior motives laid bare...it's sad really. 

And I was right...I did get a couple of cute shots...but I found something else out about my new love.  I found out it doesn't work the same as my old one...SHOCKING, I know. 

Case in point...these two pictures...same location...same shot...(well, except the kid ducked)...the only difference was the flash.  Now my old camera would flash and light the foreground target and drop the bright background a bit...this one...everything went dark.  Intriguing really.  Can't wait to figure out what setting is making it so. 

  

Something else about this shot...it's wider than my old camera would take...

I like it.

See ya around...

WOO HOO! And there was GREAT rejoicing...

Oh my goodness, it's been awhile.  Let's see...well, my camera has been giving me FITS for months and months...sometime late last summer the lens started to grind whenever it moved.  Right at first it didn't cause any problems...other than to my psyche as I had to listen to that awful noise.  But as time went on...it got worse...pretty soon the lens began catching and having a hard time moving at all.  Sometime in November it became virtually unusable.

Which brings me to my post.  I got a new camera today.  It's basically the grandchild of my old camera which I loved so well...a Cannon Powershot SX40 (not to put too fine a point on it)...I hope that we will become very good friends.

I haven't had much chance to get to know it yet...but I have taken a few pictures...for instance our 1st and 3rd grader's memory verse for the week...


And then there was the dry erase marker that was just sitting there waiting to have it's picture taken as all dry erase markers do...(um and shoelaces)...


And last but not least...an incredibly hazy reflection...


I think it's pretty obvious that I'm out of practice and that I probably need to bring up my game...but it is SO nice to play with a camera that doesn't growl at me...

See ya around...