I've finally got my little Polaroid mom and dad gave me for Christmas years ago working, which has been a struggle and a learning lesson and I am not even sure what I did that revived it, but it's breathing... well.. at least it's working, not breathing exactly.
The point is, I may not get good pictures from it, but I get at least visible ones and will now start putting my shelving together here in the office and sharing with everyone how I have built the things. I'm still looking for that new Canon I picked up off eBay, but at least I can get started on cataloging how I build my shelves for anyone else that is wanting to redesign their home office.
So that's today's project, get started on them shelves and hope the camera holds out until I find the other one again. At ten years the poor thing is ready for the electronics pile in the sky, but I dearly love it and will be sad when I can no longer coax it to work.
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Bear pictures
Okay, it's a little late, but better late than never, right? Here is a picture of the momma bear we saw when we was road tripping last weekend. I like her pose in this picture, such a classic look she has to her.
Here is the only picture of the cubs that I managed to get, they spent most of their time hiding out in the woods.
And another really good picture of the momma bear. Yes they are all the same bear, just the angle of the sun making the fur lighter or darker in the pictures.
I have more pictures, of fishermen and stuff, I'll share them after while. Don't want to put too many pictures in one post, so limiting myself to about 3 max.
Here is the only picture of the cubs that I managed to get, they spent most of their time hiding out in the woods.
And another really good picture of the momma bear. Yes they are all the same bear, just the angle of the sun making the fur lighter or darker in the pictures.
I have more pictures, of fishermen and stuff, I'll share them after while. Don't want to put too many pictures in one post, so limiting myself to about 3 max.
Road tripping in Alaska
We took off on Friday to take my dad for a drive, headed off down to the Kenai Peninsula sight-seeing. Our plan had been to go down, spend a night in a motel and come back home. That turned out to be spending two nights, no motels and total chaotic adventure but it was all around fun and a memorable trip.
We saw a few bears and a couple of moose and lots of fishermen after the salmon along the rivers. I got pictures of one of the bears, a momma and her twin cubs, but the other bear was a little black that was racing across the road way too fast to get a picture of him. I may have got pictures of the moose too, she was a momma with a little bitty almost wobbly legged calf, but they stepped into the tall underbrush and brambles before we got the cameras, and it was dusk, so I don't think any of the pictures of them came out. I'll see what I have worth sharing and share some pictures later today.
I did get a bunch of writing done on the little Alphasmart I got, including a lot of stuff added to Heir to Magic that I need to get entered into the computer later.
We saw a few bears and a couple of moose and lots of fishermen after the salmon along the rivers. I got pictures of one of the bears, a momma and her twin cubs, but the other bear was a little black that was racing across the road way too fast to get a picture of him. I may have got pictures of the moose too, she was a momma with a little bitty almost wobbly legged calf, but they stepped into the tall underbrush and brambles before we got the cameras, and it was dusk, so I don't think any of the pictures of them came out. I'll see what I have worth sharing and share some pictures later today.
I did get a bunch of writing done on the little Alphasmart I got, including a lot of stuff added to Heir to Magic that I need to get entered into the computer later.
Got me a new Canon camera
I have a new old toy now. A little Canon A70 camera that I picked up off eBay. I had thought for a little while I had totally messed up the focus by wiping something off the lense, but I think it's just really finicky about being held still since sometimes the pictures are clear and sometimes they aren't. Closeups never are, so I think I was trying to get the picture from too close. More testing needed to figure that out. I need to get a Macro lense for it.
I can't believe it that the dang lenses for this camera are twice to three times and up what I paid for the camera. =-o I paid average prices at eBay for it too, but the lenses are just out of sight on their prices.
There is one lens on the market that has a magnetic deal to hold it on the camera. I'm wondering if that is what happened to the A75 I got at the same time. It has a funky problem with its pictures where everything is scrambled and purplish looking.
I had bought the little A70 for use with stop motion stuff, but I can't get it to talk to my computer directly so it's not working for that yet. Grrrrrr Need to figure out why it won't connect to the computer. I can get pictures off with the memory card, so the camera works as long as I can sort out problem with the focus on it. I'll be happy if I can just use it as a really good camera, can do stop motion manually rather than using the onion skin in the computer.
I do need to get me a power adapter for it though. Should go check on them things over at eBay next. Rechargeable batteries would be nice too.
I can't believe it that the dang lenses for this camera are twice to three times and up what I paid for the camera. =-o I paid average prices at eBay for it too, but the lenses are just out of sight on their prices.
There is one lens on the market that has a magnetic deal to hold it on the camera. I'm wondering if that is what happened to the A75 I got at the same time. It has a funky problem with its pictures where everything is scrambled and purplish looking.
I had bought the little A70 for use with stop motion stuff, but I can't get it to talk to my computer directly so it's not working for that yet. Grrrrrr Need to figure out why it won't connect to the computer. I can get pictures off with the memory card, so the camera works as long as I can sort out problem with the focus on it. I'll be happy if I can just use it as a really good camera, can do stop motion manually rather than using the onion skin in the computer.
I do need to get me a power adapter for it though. Should go check on them things over at eBay next. Rechargeable batteries would be nice too.
