For once in a rather long time, the weather is beautiful today, low on the humidity and hot in the really wonderful way that makes you want to lie around drowsily in the grass.
How poetic.
I'm just getting fed up with being inside on a computer all day, it's making me really sleepy and unsociable. I was just sent a link to this photoblog (go check it out, the photos are amazing. I don't like some of the stuff he's done with color alterations (ex)but it's mostly really beautiful stuff), and between that and a number of simple, gorgeous photos on a friend's facebook album, I want to rush home and get my camera and wander around Philly for a week taking pictures. Or, better yet, Britain.
From what I've been reading from friends on various profiles and websites this week, it surprised me that I'm not the only graduate who seems to be getting fed up with digital technology. My digital camera had come back from the factory a couple weeks ago (after the second round of repairs and tuning from overuse), so I tried to take take some photos for the Class of '06 website I'm working on, and within minutes decided that I've gotten got sick of...well, the 'digitalness' of the images. So I dusted off the Minolta X-570 that my mom used in the 80s, and that I haven't used for over two years, and have been bringing it to work every now and then. Ben, the one with the facebook album I can't get enough of, has also been trying out his 'very old camera' (ah the eloquence of an English student) in Northumbria. Unfortunately, SLR cameras don't fit into a bag the way a digital point-and-shoot does, so carrying it around is taking some getting used to. But hopefully I'll get some really sharp images out of it.
In other news, I did the get-a-free-iPod-with-a-Mac deal; the iPod arrived a week and a half ago, and the laptop over the weekend. My PC is great, but it was time for an upgrade (and a system that supports video editing), painfully apparent after transferring my music from old computer to new, an all-too lengthy process wherein all problems were on the PC end. Mac-to-Mac would have taken five minutes; PC-to-Mac took an hour. C'est la vie.
All in all, technologically, life is improving.
- Meg
- Jewelry designer, bookworm, semi-closeted sci fi freak. I like semiprecious stones, all things Tolkien, wines under $15, and mint. I have a twin brother; yes, we are telepathic (don't you know that all twins are?).
2 comments:
The technology universe is hmmm... interesting.
I enjoyed visiting your blog
pssst...it's a Minolta X-570 (Nikon never made such a camera) and it was dad's--he bought it to take pictures for the calendar that he an mom did.
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