it arrived yesterday afternoon at about 2:30 and i had just an hour and a half to figure it all out before my massage clients showed up at 4:00. i knew that by the time they left it’d be 6:00 and therefore dark so if i was going to take photos outside, i had to hurry.
luckily the battery was already partially charged so i could take some pictures first thing. i figured i’d have time later for reading about all the stuff it can do.
here is my very first photo; i wanted to see how well it worked in low lighting.
kevin in front of the newly-painted storage closet in the tiny hallway outside the bathroom.
this camera has a wider-angle lens and it looks like it’s a lot wider than the other camera; i need to find a comparable photo to compare. this is the whole bird-feeding place which is kind of getting out of hand in terms of sheer messiness.
i was very excited about the zoom.
here’s a great photo of the beach house which is all the way across the lake! very exciting to me. i realize that some of you have already had fancy cameras with marvelous zoom capabilities for ages (uncle jimmy), but for me the difference is awesome.
i took so many pictures and was also excited that i could just keep taking them, click click click, without that annoying delay in waiting to take another photo.
this was taken all the way up the hill from the house.
here’s mollie, who had found something delicious to sniff down by the lake. i kept calling her but she wouldn’t budge till she finally roared into action and up the hill.
the house bird feeder, which continues to look more eaten and bedraggled.
for a brief period yesterday we looked ultra-trashy with the toilet out on the front porch. kevin put it out there to finish up the bathroom floor and it wasn’t there for long so i had to hurry and record the moment.
last night i kept trying to figure out how to take night photos. i was looking out the window but WHERE WAS MR. RACCOON? nowhere to be seen, so instead i took a picture of kevin.
i looked out and suddenly THERE WAS THE RACCOON. i’d been fooling around with the settings and getting very frustrated because the online manual wasn’t detailed enough about taking pictures at night. there’s no actual manual for the camera, it’s only an adobe document, and i guess i’m just going to have to print out all 177 pages.
mr. raccoon was delighted to find the pizza box filled with taco chips from the taco pizza we had on valentine’s day.
i can’t tell if this is a better picture than the ones with the other camera; i think it is. the other thing is that there were lots more piles of snow the other night, making the scene brighter to begin with.
i finally stopped taking pictures because i took so many…and then i looked out AND THERE WERE TWO RACCOONS! WHAT??!!! TWO!!!!
the other one was a bit smaller and thinner and much more skittish about mollie’s nonstop hysterical barking.
this is my favorite picture, with the other raccoon climbing up onto the table. i’ve decided she must be Mrs. Raccoon. she didn’t stick around long, but instead crawled under the porch because she couldn’t deal with the constant barking trauma.
here’s the ruthless hunter.
it makes sense that Mr. Raccoon is so much fatter than his raccoon wife; he comes and has a nice meal all the time, but she’s way too timid. but on the other hand maybe she joins him later in the night when mollie is dead to the world.
maybe there’s a whole FAMILY of raccoons out there eating! it kind of would be worth it to get up in the middle of the night to find out, but since i wake up in the middle of the night sometimes anyway and haven’t seen any raccoons maybe it’d be in vain.
luckily it’s going to be slightly warmer today (in the mid-30’s which is still pretty awful) so i can stay outside and take more pictures.
ok then,
friday grace.