Thursday, June 30, 2011

Gangsta Penguin


Word.

Pt Defiance Zoo/Aquarium, taken with the Nikon.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

HONK!Fest photo

The hardest part of the daily photo is choosing one.


Chipmunk cheeks!

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Daily Photo

Inspired by Dooce as well as my own love of photography, I've decided to try to do a daily photo here. I certainly have enough material to go for a very long time, even if I never take another picture in my life. Sometimes when I'm feeling the creative bug, I take my camera (the Nikon) for walks like it's a dog, and we have great fun together.

For any geeks who don't know me in real life and are curious, I shoot with a used Nikon D40x (purchased from Craigslist, and for which I have all of 2 lenses), and sometimes with a pretty blue Panasonic Lumix DMC-FP1 that doesn't do quite everything the Nikon does, but is much easier to carry around. I also have a couple of 35mm SLR cameras, and an alarming number of little 35mm cameras, but I haven't quite gotten into them yet. I like the instant gratification of the digital.

I've always taken pictures. The slew of little film cameras that live in a delightful camera community in the storage area under my couch are mostly from high school and college. When I was married, we had a Canon Elph that I used almost exclusively to take photos of our 547 pets. Then I was divorced and living with my parents and bored silly, and my dad - in one of the most life-changing things he'd ever do for me - bought me a cheap 3MP brick-shaped HP Photosmart digital camera. That thing ate AA batteries like I eat cake and had an LCD screen the size of my thumb, but I loved the crap out of it and only just recently bequeathed it to a new home.

Monday, June 27, 2011

Warm n fuzzies!

Last week in a fit of fangirliness, I emailed Heather Armstrong, aka Dooce. I've been reading her blog for years, and recently have been devouring her archives from a billion years ago. I lovelovelove her writing, her stories, her life, her photography. I told her how I especially appreciate that she doesn't shy away from writing about her struggles with depression, as I can totes relate (guys, am I pulling that off? "totes" is so fun but I feel like I can't quite swing it...).

Today she wrote me baaaaaaaack! I feel so speciaaaaaaaaaaaaal!

"You are so sweet. Thank you so much for your kind words. You WILL get better and you WILL be happy. You deserve it. And remember, you are never alone. Promise. Much love"

Thursday, June 23, 2011

I have no words

There's nothing I can say that would make this site better, except that I wish I could be featured on it. Because I? I disapprove of A LOT OF THINGS. There's disapproval all up in hea, and sometimes I even disapprove of disapproval. META DISAPPROVAL.

go to the site go to it nowwww

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Technical question...

Fellow blogger/blogspot users... is there a way to nest comments? Like, when someone comments, I can respond to that comment rather than just leaving a brand-new one? I've searched everywhere for this setting, but it's entirely possible I'm just missing it. I mean, there might be a cute boy somewhere within a 5 mile radius of me, setting off my retardation... I am open to that possibility.