Saturday, April 28, 2007

Shaw Nature Reserve

I'm heading to this place called Shaw Nature Reserve today once I finish my homework. I'll post the pictures here once I take them.

Edit:

Well, in case you didn't read this blog's description that says I only take film pictures, well you know now that I only do that, and only take digital when I can't bring my FTb. Well, once those pictures are developed, which means 2 rolls of 24 exposure, 400-speed Kodak film at a sort of nearby camera place (which is not Walgreens or Wal-Mart... those places and grocery stores are only for when I'm in a hurry and have no other choice... meaning when I'm on vacation or something). Enough ranting... so yeah, I saw some awesome views from overlooks and observation decks and some trails and interesting stuff! So... I'll post the best of those pictures when I get them developed and scanned in.

Interesting things that happened there:
-As I sat down on a bench at the trail house, and began to load my first roll of film, a family came by, and I heard one of the kids (two boys about the age of 10 or younger) ask to take a picture of the house, and the parents walked by and saw me loading the film in, and they said "Oh look, a real camera!" Of course, I laughed. She was probably refering to how the kids were using one of those point-and-shoot digital cameras, and I had an old, 100% manually operated film SLR.

-There was this kid and his Mom that seemed to be going on the same trails I was going on for a while, and the kid convinced me to get into this teepee thing that was set up off the side of one of the trails, and good thing I went in there, because I saw some interesting photo opportunities in there! He was cool, the kid.

Friday, April 27, 2007

Initial Entry

Hello blogging world! I can't believe that I'm here! Well, I guess I don't really need intros, since you can find all the info you want about me (except my name) on the side of this page. So getting down to business, I'm in school, and I've got about three weeks left! Can you say, "Score one for the Republic"? (Yeah, get used to that. I may be saying it often. I played Star Wars Battlefront II and I really like that line.) So, good stuff: School's almost over, school's almost over, and... school's almost over! Not so good stuff: ah... exams, exams, and did I mention exams? Yeah... kinda like that. Well, I've gotta get off. I can't even believe how late it is, and I like getting a good amount of sleep on weekends, but conversely, I like to have as many hours of daylight on the weekend at my disposal as possible. I'm more of a daytime person, and that comes with being a photographer, even though I'm technically an ametuer, even an ametuer photographer knows you get the best results on sunny days. Yeah, you can get good effects in less-than-perfect conditions, but I don't want to be getting my Mom's 1975 vintage Canon FTb ruined in the rain.

Why do I keep rambling like that? Ah, first post syndrome or something like that.

Later people! I'll head off to dreamland now.