So...we are off to The Alps in 6 hours...

[Adsos Letter]

and I am taking a Canon PowerShot200SX IS, which I first laid eyes on when I purchased it this afternoon...

My youngest daughter "borrowed" my larger Sony for a trip to Micronesia for 2 weeks earlier this year. During their rainy season. I'm talkin' RAINY season. I MEAN IT REALLY RAINED HARD THERE. Hard enough that, when they opened the "waterproof" storage containers, my Sony was floating, half-submerged, in water. FLOATING! IN. THE. WATER!!!

After she got home, and all the wailing-and-gnashing-of-teeth had subsided, I put said camera on the shelf until I could get it to a repair shop. My intentions were pure.

Of course, being the Brilliantine that I am, I waited until LAST NIGHT to see if, by some chance, it would still work. Amazingly enough, it refused to even turn on.

So, now I'm off for the major field-trip for the year with a camera I have no experience with (not that experience has ever helped me much).

Let us speak no more of this...

Oh yeah, this is the photo group; here is one of my favorite flowers for you all (posted many times). I don't know if it fits with the theme for this month, or not:




Edited to add: strangely enough, that isn't actually a flower...it appears to be a set of doors with some sky reflected in the glass...and the dairy farmers are rioting in Brussels this week, which is our first stop...


Wish us luck. :D :hi:


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[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. good luck... learn the camera on

the plane?

[Adsos Letter]

2. I will probably just do everything on automatic.

Is all that Nikon pron yours? Beautiful stuff! I wouldn't even know how to turn any of it on.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. yep, part of the arsenal

acquired over the ages

[Adsos Letter]

4. Well, I certainly can admire the equipment, but I am much more envious of your abilities.

I remember when you were doing the "light studies" that your avatar resulted from.

Hopefully, when I am done with the the freaking mountains of reading I'm doing to finish my degree, I will have time to apply to really setting about learning the technical end of photography.

That's what I'm hoping anyway; and you guys keep providing images that keep me interested in really learning.