We spent most of the afternoon hiking today. I had meant to get an early start on hiking, but overslept, oops. But I don’t feel too guilty for it because Sundays are for oversleeping and I actually did more today than I usually do on Sundays.
We went up to the Santa Anita range [...]
My parents haven’t had time to play with the family dog (which stays with them) lately, so the BF and I decided to take him to the playground of my elementary school. When I close the fence, he can’t escape but he can run to his heart’s content all over the the playground — [...]
I dropped my first roll of film off at CVS. It was mostly a test roll to make sure my 35mm camera was working. It is. I also learned that I don’t ever want to go to CVS to get prints again. Why?
They didn’t know what dpi their machine scanned in negatives as.
Even though [...]
I was messing around with Gimp’s super easy animated gif creation filter and made this scary gif of me making stupid faces while waiting for dinner tonight. Some of my faces look pretty scary, no?
I’ve been looking for an SLR for a while and when I saw the Craigslist ad, I had to contact the seller. The seller listed this Nikon FE2 with lens and an extra wide-angle lens for a pretty low amount. They realized this after we had agreed to meet the next day to exchange [...]
I’ve been looking at getting a new lens for my camera and have my eye on this Sigma 30mm f/1.4 lens from Amazon. It’s better for low light situations than my current kit lens and the pictures I’ve seen from it on Flickr look pretty damn good.
I know I told myself I won’t be [...]
One of my resolutions this year is to take more pictures of non-food subjects. Taking pictures of food is fun and all, but it’s not that challenging and for people who aren’t into food, it’s pretty boring to look at.
I’ve been looking through chcharlie’s pictures on flickr and am constantly impressed by how his [...]
