I Could Be A Private Eye...

I have been having a lot of fun playing with my new camera. I have taken so many pictures it is re-diculous!  I delete a lot of them, but by taking so many I am learning what the camera can do. 

This one was taken when I was standing on the side of the road, and FabGrandpa was over there fishing on the bank of the lake. Can you see him waaayyy over there?:

but with just a touch of a button, here he is:

 

If he was pickin' his nose he wouldn't be able to hide it, hahahaha!

I took this photo from the same place, looking over by the swimming area:

And again, with the zoom feature:

 

This is looking up towards our campsite: 

 

And with the zoom, I would be able to see all those ladybugs almost:

 

And this one, just because I like this photo:

 

So who needs some private detective work? Or a spy?

I Got A New Camera!

I have been using my old camera since 2003? I think. I got it when we lived in McAllen, Texas, and we left there in January 2005. It has been a good camera, but it was time for a new one, because it has been acting a little fickle for a year or so. It just turns itself off at will, or doesn't take pictures whenever it doesn't feel like it. And while I haven't missed any truly important shots, I just wasn't happy with it anymore.

When I found out that I was to receive a cash award from my job, I decided to use that money to get a new camera. So, when I saw that the money was in my bank account, we went to Tuscaloosa yesterday to get a new one.

Since I took this picture in a mirror, it is backwards. This is a Nikon Coolpix S630. It is 12 megapixels and 7X zoom.  And when I took this picture:

 

the readout on the LED screen said "Did someone blink?". That cracked us up! Now I still wonder how the camera knew that FabGrandpa blinked. I was soooo excited to find out it has a setting for taking pictures of food. Since you KNOW I love to take pictures of food almost as much as I love to eat:

pancakes

bacon

BBQ salad

It does a pretty good job with landscapes too. This was taken with the "night-time landscape" setting. It was almost dark outside when I took this photo.

 

And it was after dark when I took this one. 

I think I am going to have lots of fun with this new camera. As soon as I figure out how everything works.

Dang It!

Last year, FabGrandpa and went to town one day and I left my camera at home. I missed one of the best photo opportunities ever, when we came home and there was a bull bison standing in the road. I vowed, that day, to NEVER LEAVE HOME WITHOUT MY CAMERA AGAIN!

Yesterday, I worked the late shift at the entrance station. As I was coming home near sunset, there he was again! The largest, most forbiding looking animal I have ever seen (and I am not talking about FabGrandpa here), was standing alone in the meadow to my right. I stopped the truck and opened my backpack, and you guessed it! I DIDN'T HAVE MY CAMERA WITH ME!!!!! I could just cry! That guy has now given me two good chances to take his picture and I missed them both!