Kumwhats? Kumquats!
May 14, 2008 Misc
You may remember my recent posts asking which camera I should choose. Shawn decided on the EOS Digital Rebel XTi.
Well, it arrived on Monday and since then, I have been taking pictures of the most random crap around our house, evar!
The cat. The cat eating. The cat sleeping. The cat washing herself and eating and sleeping, and of course, licking her butt fastidiously. Cats are, after all, dainty and polite little creatures. Pictures of my garden, of the basil growing in it, of the dill just flowering, pictures of the cat in the garden through the just flowering dill. I took a few pictures of the sad and lonely single red cayenne pepper growing in the garden as well as one of Shawn’s feet, my feet, cement on the porch, the dog, the kitchen floor the–well. You get the point.
Out of all of them, however, I think one photo may have actually turned out better than all of the rest so far. This shot of our neighbors kumquat tree came out pretty awesome for me. I did use a circular polarizing filter to take it and I did, of course, adjust layers and sharpness in adobe photoshop. But to me, this image holds so much greater quality as well as promise than most of the images I’ve been taking with the S700.
This image represents a whole new level to my brand new love affair with my camera. More and more lately, I have been looking at things…I have been really looking. The color of something, the shape of it, the way the light frames around it or across it–the expressions on faces, the curve of hands, even the dirt on the carpet becomes a potential picture in the ‘camera’ inside my head. I’ve begun to look at things in my mind as what I think it would appear as if in a photo.
I’ve gotta finally admit it. My messy, amazing, wonderful life turns into something absolutely amazing and beautiful. Even the worn spots on my desk could, if taken right, make an amazing texture photo.
I hope some day that I’ll be able to show the world this and I hope that they’ll feel the same way too.
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