Finally...

For most of my life I have been attempting to take 'artsy' photographs with crap cameras.

Starting all the way back in 1983 with my state of the art Kodak Disc Camera.


It was happening. But you couldn't do close ups. Or any form of zoom. Or...pretty much anything..other than point & shoot & hope you could actually recognize what was in the picture in the first place.

But that didn't stop me from taking dozens & dozens of photos of flowers, trees, the sky, landscapes etc.

I even managed to get a few good ones.

And then I moved on to various 35mm. None of them anything other than mass produced cheapos.

No zoom. No tele-photo. No nothings.

At the turn of century we went high tech & got our first digital camera. At the time it was pretty cool. But it didn't take long for it to be antiquated & out of date.

We upgraded to a newer more powerful digital with about twice as many pixels as the first one & this one actually had a zoom button.

But it was still pretty sad.

I have taken many, many pictures with it over the years. Including almost every one on this blog. I've taken many that I really, really, like.

Yet, I missed so many others. Long distance shots of the amazing wildlife in the high desert. The oh-so-sweet brand new baby feet photo I wanted so badly after my last was born. But my camera didn't do close ups & they were just fuzzy & indistinct :(

Knowing the desires of my heart my fabulous man gave me an Olympus E-PL1 for Christmas. Now for many of you with super duper uber cameras that still might seem pretty sad. But to me it is a life long dream.

At last, a grown up camera with lenses ~ did you catch that plural (meaning more than one)? With the ability to zoom in and do telephoto.

I am a very happy camper.

Now, it still doesn't have a mega-3-miles-away-flea-on-a-dogs-back telephoto but it is pretty awesome.

I spent about an hour today, outside, playing with the lenses & settings & seeing what that baby can do.

I am stoked.

I still have hours & hours of manual reading & practicing to do before I even scratch the surface of what it can do but I am so pleased with what I already can do I could just, just...blog to the world about it :)

And you know one of the top bestest things about digital verses film cameras? (besides the totally obvious)


I CAN take 400 practice shots & it doesn't cost me $100 in film ;)

So, just because I know y'all are just dying to see my pretty pictures...I have a few to share

                                                    (look Beci! My first ever 'sun flare'!)

                                                                (isn't this one pretty?)

Blessings.