4 posts tagged “flickr”

Recently, a new camera made its way into our household. We'd been talking about it for a while, sort of flirting with the idea. Slumming it with the point and shooters of the world. And shortly before our last roadtrip, we got one. A Canon PowerShot.

Let me just say this, before I say anything else: If you are any kind of serious about photography, and want a digital camera that will fulfill your commercial dreams, stay away from the PowerShot. It produces compressionridden images like you wouldn't believe.

I've peppered this post with a couple of shots, recently taken with it. Apart from that, these pictures have nothing to do with the contents.

Anyway, we got the camera for that trip, and I've actually taken to carrying the little bugger around with me, shooting left and right. As faithful readers of this blog will remember, I have been in a photographic funk lately, feeling a little too constricted with simply shooting with sales in mind. Since the point and shoot is such a crappy camera anyway, and easy to transport, it actually serves as a way for me get my eyes back on, so to speak.

I've been shooting a lot with it. Little things that I've spotted along the way. Snapshots. Stuff where I've been thinking more about my flickr album than my stock portfolio. It's been very refreshing, and even if these images can never replace the niceness that comes from my dslr, they are in fact a nice supplement.

Pretty soon, another roadtrip is coming up. This time it's down to San Francisco (don't worry, I'll have flowers in my hair ... maybe) with the prettier half and a friend from Denmark. We don't know precisely which day we're leaving or how long we are going to be gone, but we do know which car we'll be driving.

As a sidenote, I e-mailed my bank (in Denmark everyone has a personal account manager to contact for help and advice), to notify them of a possible overdraft in the next couple of weeks. The reply I got back was short and sweet: "That's okay, we know you're good for it." Now I really want to spend some money! Dangerous, dangerous.

However, let me finish off this rant of a post, by summarizing: It's great and liberating to take snapshots with a (fairly) cheap camera, I'm excited about my friend visiting and the trip down south - and don't worry - more Danish Lessons are coming!

You're wondering where the hell those Danish Lessons are at, aren't you? Well, if you must know, I've been busy with other things, and haven't gotten around to recording the next batch yet. It'll happen sooner or later, so just keep practicing what you've got.

And just because you're such a nosey bastard, I'll even let you in on, what it is I'm keeping myself so busy with. There's my novel, for one. I'm almost done with the third draft, having edited the first couple of chapters of the third act (that's the part of the story, where all the pieces start to fall into place, for those who don't know).

And I've been out. Outside in the Seattle summer that will not die, shooting strangers in the street, hanging out with my man Lee, drinking way too much coffee and jotting down private notes on life and all its injustices in my Moleskine. Fuck, I'm so deep sometimes, I can't even stand myself. I'm surprised you're still reading.

Anyway, thought I'd share a shot from yesterday's photosafari in Ballard. There's a lot more in my flickr portfolio (and even more to come). And don't tell anyone, but I actually shot all these in jpg-mode. Slumming it with the point and shooters of the world. I feel so dirty.