Anyway, due to some unfortunate events on the Colorado River at the end of July, my trusty little Nikon camera stopped working. I tried drying it out, but it didn't work. At least the batteries were still good once I recharged them and the memory card is fine (although I just managed to erase all the photos on the card when I reformatted it for my new camera-at least I think that's what I did, because now there are no photos on the card, but I digress).
Anyway, amazon.com has been my good friend this summer because I am so far from any regular stores, and let's be honest, you can get anything on amazon.com these days, as well as a bunch of helpful customer reviews to help you decide what you should get. After a reading a lot of reviews, I decided on a Samsung S860. It has 8.1 mega pixels, 3x optical zoom, 3x digital zoom, and I can make short video clips-with sound. My last camera was only 4.1 mega pixels and could make videos, but with no audio. So all around, this camera is much better and I actually paid about $18 less for it (and I think I got the Nikon of eBay maybe 2-3 years ago). It has some cool features too...it has this face recognition thing so it won't take the photo if the people aren't in focus, it has self portrait mode that allows you to take better pictures of yourself, and you can change the color and take black and white photos, green photos, blue photos, etc. Here is a sampling:
me in color
me in black and white
me in sepiaWell these are the exciting times of my life living in Lake Powell at the end of summer. :-) My office computer is not really working, so I can't get much work done. My trip is canceled for tomorrow, so I have the day off. I think I will catch up on cleaning my house and maybe go to the beach. I had a good talk with my mom today and I'm feeling better about life and about the future (I'm not sure my mom actually said much-mostly she just listened to me whine, which is sometimes the therapy I need, thanks mom). Later this week I get to go boating, shopping in Grand Junction, and I get to learn to cook Filipino food. I'm working on planning my last event calendar, so if any of you want to come visit...you better let me know soon so I can plan it into my schedule in September.
4 comments:
Hey! Awesome camera! Cute pics.. you look great! Wish I had your tan, holy cow! Sounds like you are going to be keeping plenty busy your last month or so at Lake Powell! When is your last day there?
That's cool that you can take pictures in different colors.
ya I remembered you said you lived there but I was with my boyfriends cousins family. If I was on my own, I would have wanted to see ya. It was so beautiful there! and HOT!!! holy crap. but at least I am tan! I like your hair! what are you doing living in Powell?
Great camera! That is so cool it can take pictures in different colors. You look great by the way. So summer is almost over--what are you going to do next?
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