not even close.
So you ask how could it possibly get any worse. But it will. You know it will.
So today I ate a chicken sandwich and helped nana with her closet rack, and sat at school sweating over another meaningless assignment, and listening to a new cd. It's so easy to take everything for granted - so much easier to stay oblivious.
from yahoo's picks of the week:
No Rules Street Photography
http://www.skylightweb.com/imagine/
"This photography site breaks all the conventional rules. Creative
photog Nitsa doesn't worry about composition, framing, lenses, or
filters. Instead, this lenswoman looks to simply capture natural
settings as she sees them. Read her manifesto on "No Rules," and
follow her recipe to snap a "non-photo." Although she claims to
take pictures with "no regards to excellency," her photos are, in
fact, quite excellent. Her gallery of "Fall in New York" is
particularly compelling, and the black and white shots of street
scenes are stunning. If breaking the rules is wrong, we don't want
to be right."
Went shopping for a battery charger yesterday. Nobody has'em. ..Stupid camera uses an exclusive battery and an exclusive charger, that'll only work for the G1 and the G2. Bedford Camera has the whole kit, ..car adapter and AC adapter and dual battery charger and direct camera power cord, ..for a nice low price of $175. Swell. I wanna have a powered camera by Saturday. Gotta do somethin.
While there I talked to Lee Coleman, the same guy who sold me my Canon SLR. Guy knows alot. Good photographer too. I find it much more enjoyable to talk to a proffesional than try to get any information out of a crackwhore at Best Buy or Circuit City. The prices are a tad bit higher at a locally owned camera store than at a big electronics superchain, but in the end, by going to a specialized store you get 3 things:
1. You talk to camera people. Generally, camera people know about cameras. Camera people can talk intelligently about things such as, ...cameras.
2. Best Buy has things called "warranties," but they invlove giving your camera away for 3 months, and finding out at the end of 3 months that they can't fix your camera, or that the camera has been lost while in route to a big mega-camera-repair-complex, somewhere in Arizona.
3. You get the satisfaction of supporting a locally owned business, not a big super chain that staffs people to watch you on camera and pad you down upon exit.
It turns out that getting digital prints from a cd or compact flash card, ..actually costs less than film prints. ...And oddly enough, the film prints AND digital prints get processed by the same machine, ..which is hooked up to both a film, and digital pre-processor. Machines are cool. Maybe I'll burn a dozen or so of my fav digital photos to a cd and get prints. Prolly so.
Bought me a conversion lens adapter. Sweet. Now I can use a wide angle or macro lens, but for now all I've got is a PL filter that will reduce reflections and increase the color contrast for sunny shots.
Also got a nice deal on a 64 mb compact flash card. It'll be nice to worry less about storage. Should be able to store around 120 images instead of 30, and still carry around the 16 mb card as a backup. Maybe I can use all this cool stuff when the camera has, sufficient power to turn on.
New stuff. Glorious Stuff.
I've lost my G1 lens cover. I've lost my battery charger cord. They are gone. This sucks. Maybe I should go buy new ones. Maybe I should just go look harder. Maybe so.
A couple weeks back I got to see a Cuban photography exhibition at the Arkansas Arts Center. Benjamin Krain is the photographer. He is the man. Yes he is. So as any curious person would do, you turn to google for additional insight on the local cool photo guy. You find this and these which is a part of the Arkansas Press Photographers Association...All of which are things you've never seen before, never heard of, but now have. ..Thanks to a Larry at Pennington Studios, for saying, "oh by the way, you should check out the new photo exhibit at the arts center." Thanks Larry. Larry has a digital Canon G1, ..just like me. Except well, how should I put it, um ...Larry uses it for a toy. Yes he does. You see Larry also has in his posession a $20,000 camera which has interchangable digital and film backing. Larry is a god. Perhaps I will steal his camera and take over the world. Then all of those product shoots and glamour shots will be mine. all mine. "Excuse me ladies, ahem, ..I'm the guy with the big fancy camera. yeah that's me. Just step over here. Hey somebody show me how to use this thing. And show me how to use all this fancy lighting equipment. Surely that won't take long. Surely. Where's larry? Hey Larry."