Saturday, October 31, 2009

Blurry Photos

Well, I am no Annie Leibovitz.

Supposed to take pictures for my job, and most of the ones I've been taking recently have been in darkly lit clubs and halls and I've no idea what the heck I'm doing wrong. You can't print blurry pictures in the paper.

There's ISO, shutter speed, aperture, etc. to worry about, and I can't use flash because that looks like someone's great aunt took the shot while drunk, but why the hell do they have to make D-SLR cameras so damn complicated? I need a little happy snap. Or some tutoring. Or lots of time and patience to spend playing around with the work camera on my time off (what time off?) to figure it out. If only I could just take pictures of old people sitting on park benches in the sun. Anyone can make those shots look good.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Merritt, B.C.

The City of Merritt, B.C. has a website with a list of Things To Do. The page includes five photos with no captions, one of which is a Canadian flag on a barren hillside. Within the first hour of my arrival in this town I found myself standing under that flag at the viewpoint, which means I've got to pace myself. There's only four more things left to do. I think windsurfing is one of them, and that will have to wait till next summer!

But I'm going to break some massive story here that will be posted to all the national news sites, I can just feel it...

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

On Hope

We rejoice in our sufferings,
because we know that suffering
produces perseverance;
perseverance, character,
character, hope.
And hope does not disappoint us.
-Romans, 5:3-5