Snaptography

No work for me today, and it's quite a relief because considering the weather, I don't think I'd want to be couped up in an office.

However, that doesn't mean I've been sat on my butt all day, quite the opposite.

The morning is taken up with catching up with some household chores, such as washing and the like. I try to get as much done as is needed and with it being so warm it doesn't take long for a line of clothes to dry and consequently another line being put out. It's all about planning on my part, since we are away for the weekend again it would be nice to have something to wear for the occasion :)

I then set about trying to track down a case to put our new camera in. It didn't come with one, and Phil and I both decided that whilst we don't need a huge kit bag to put it in, a case for the camera as it is (ie, the body and the lens) would be handy and useful to protect it against knocks and scrapes. I eventually find one thats just right, it's a semi-hard case made by canon, but instead of ordering online I ring around a few of our local camera places to see if they have any in stock that I can pick up today.

Luckily for me a place in town has one, so after a quick bite to eat I head off to the park and ride to get myself into town and pick the case up. The trip in was fine, the bus was air conditioned and not very full, so plenty of room to chill out (literally). So after I've got the case, treated myself to a very nice lemon meringue ice cream and bought Constantine and Racing Stripes on DVD and an album by Stonebridge. I then head back to the bus, but it seems my luck has changed as this bus not only is packed to the brim, but also has no air conditioning at all! It was the most unbearable 4 miles of my life to say the least.

When I get back home I then have a play around with the camera some more and go out into the garden to take some pictures. I've not read the manual or anything really, so I was pleasantly surprised by the results which you can see here... please bare in mind that the images are over .5mb each, so may take some time to download. I have compressed them just to make it practical to put them on the web, so the quality you see isn't what you get directly from the camera which shoots at a resolution of 3456 x 2304!

I then have a further tinker with my phone and install the software it came with on the computer which apparently makes it easier to organise stuff... well maybe for some, but I quickly lost patience and left Phil to have a go whilst I got on with tea.

The rest of the evening is relatively lost, filled by watching a few snippits on the tv, and not much more than that.

Posted by Abi on the July 14, 2005 10:06 PM