Winter Wonderland

First snow of the season, and I got up so early this morning to get to work, that I didn’t have a chance to capture the snow coming down. But when I got home from work, I got out my camera and tripod to take pictures. I wanted to capture the rarity of the snow, [...]

Learning to use my camera

Work asked that I go to a local mall and try to take some ‘retail’ pictures that could be used on flyers/brochures/ads. Requirements: No truly detailed faces No seasonal decorations to place the ‘time’ No store names Since I had to make sure no faces were in ‘focus’ or filled out in detail, I tried [...]

Down by the Lake

Decided to take the new camera for another test drive out by Lake Benson this afternoon. Was very windy, but nice and bright making for a gorgeous day. So on to the pictures:

A couple of neighborhood snapshots

I recently picked up a new camera, a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28K. It’s snazzy and takes nice pictures, and even does them in RAW format, though I’ve recently learned Adobe’s Camera Raw doesn’t support it yet because it’s still too new. Rolls eyes. Oh well, the JPEGs are still very good quality and hopefully sometime soon [...]