Look out, he’s got a camera

Recently someone my wife knows bought a new camera and gave my wife her old one, a very decent little Nikon. (I don’t know why she didn’t sell it.) And since my wife has a better one, she is graciously allowing me to use this one when she isn’t carrying it around with her because it’s a lot smaller than the better one. So you’re probably going to see more pictures here. I claim no skill as a photographer, and have gotten no further in learning how to use this camera than pointing and shooting, but I like being able to capture images that I see around me.

Naturally the first thing I did was fire the flash into a mirror. I call this Self-Portrait with Landscape.

I wanted to claim it shows the light of holiness shining from me but the camera is clearly visible. A little later it rained. I really like the way things look in the rain, like these trees. I call this Trees in the Rain.

I took the camera with me to Nashville a couple of weeks ago and have some pictures from that trip that I’ll post as I get around to it, one or two because I like them and one or two to impress upon anyone who’s interested how gargantuanly big the atrium of that hotel was. Unfortunately the ducks in the swimming pool were a little too far away to make a good picture.

Yesterday morning when I walked the dogs down to the bay (a twice-daily routine) there was a rainbow over the water. I hurried back to the house and got the camera, but by the time I got back down there the rainbow was almost gone. Well, that’s life with rainbows, isn’t it?

By the way, you can click those pictures for bigger versions.