Digital SLR Camera

Well, I'm going to be getting a new SLR camera for my photography class next year. It's going to be a digital one, given that film is nice, but developing it and buying film all the time is a pain, and on top of the already unreasonable gas prices, it eats away at my budget. So, after looking around at digital cameras, and checking out the list of cameras that my photography teacher recommends, I liked the Canon Rebel XTi, but honestly the Nikon D40 is a lot better priced, and even the editors on this website called digitalcamera-hq.com calls the Nikon D40 the "Best Affordable SLR". Honestly, that's just awesome. I only have about $300 right now that I've saved for a while, and I wanted to use that for other stuff, but now I see a very practical use for that money! Honestly, I'm going to Alaska in a couple weeks, and I don't want to have to buy 50 rolls of film and then have to pay to get them all developed! I want to take a bunch of pictures, and I think that having a digital camera will help out with that. Plus, uploading pictures will be far more easier! The library where I scan in my pictures blocks deviantART on their computers, so I have to e-mail the pictures home to upload them, but e-mailing pictures decreases the quality, so the quality will be a lot better!

Well, gotta run.

Peace out!

P.S the Renaissance Faire was closed when I went to it a week ago, since it was only when we saw it was closed that we figured out that it was only open on weekends. Oh well, no pictures coming out of there...

A likely location for more pictures

Well, according to my local newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Renaissance Faire (the "e" at the end of "Faire" was intentional, since it's a medieval thing, and old English doesn't spell things the exact same way as modern English) started today and will continue to June. It's basically a place where there's this Medieval village set up and there are a bunch of people as characters such as the King and Queen of England, the Queen of France (and their guards, of course! Those are who I remembered from last year...) and others. There will also be some other stuff such as jousting tournaments, complete with crowd chants, cheering and booing, and even swordfighting! (however, they don't let you take swords into the place unless you tie it to the sheath so it prevents you from unsheathing it...) so there will be all that, and other entertainment stuff such as... I don't know, musical stuff, like drinking songs, small musical theatre stuff, and the like. I could go on and on about this, but I'd probably bore you all. I think it would be better if I told more about it when I actually got pictures back from that.