New Camera

My brand spanking new Nikon D7000 has arrived!! It showed up last Friday when we were heading out the door for dinner at our friends house. I was so excited that I couldn’t just leave it sit on the counter at home; I had to take it with me. OK how rude it is to show up for dinner with your new toy that needs to be assembled . . . and you proceed to do just that?! There I sat, pushing the brie out of the way so I could spread out my “getting started” instructions and unpacking all the little boxes inside the big box. I must say we are so lucky to have such gracious and understanding friends who didn’t promptly throw me out the door with my camera flying right behind me.

Saturday I packed up my new toy and I headed to Ohio to assist my dad with taking photos at a wedding on Sunday. Saturday night was spent getting the new toy set up to take PHD photos (Dad calls this the Push Here Dummy mode on the camera, meaning fully automatic). See I come from a family of RTFM people (for you uninformed out there, that’s Read The F-ing Manual) and this manual is like a small novel.  So I have a way to go in fully understanding all the functions and buttons that will allow me to take stunning photographs . . . or at least that's the plan.  Sunday was spent with two cameras around my neck, the old standby for security and the new shiny toy taking photos of a wedding.  Good thing I was just acting as back up photographer.

So, do I know how all those new photos turned out? NOPE! We just bought new software to upgrade the home computer from the dreaded Vista to Windows 7. Of course I need to back everything up before I do that, load the new operating system, load the Nikon software, download the photos from the camera and hopefully discover that I got some great shots!

So here’s to hoping that the new toy works great and that the bride and groom will be happy with the results!

xoxo

Simple Things

It was a glorious fall weekend! Those kind of beautiful days that are still warm, but not too warm. The trees are changing color, the evenings are cool, and pumpkins and mums decorate houses. The light has changed and slants somehow from a different angle. I absolutely love driving down a country road and that moment when falling leaves are hit by sunlight that is golden . . . I can actually hear Vivaldi’s Four Seasons playing in my head!

Le husband and I took a road trip home this beautiful weekend to celebrate our nephew’s thirteenth birthday. We sat outside around a fire pit and roasted marshmallow’s while the kids sang along to some of their favorite pop/rap songs . . . what they lack in ability they make up for in enthusiasm! It was fun catching up with everyone and listening to stories about recent events in everyone’s lives and some of the remember-when-we-did-such-and-such stories. I like to step back at these get togethers and just listen to all the different conversations happening at once, people laughing, kids playing . . . the general buzz of a group of people happy to see one another.

It may be a cliché to say it’s the simple things in life that make us happy, but this weekend it certainly was true!