I've been kind of nonstop for the past few days and it was only tonight when I sat down after work that I realized how tired I was. And cranky. I sniped at Evan about being nice to me in the wrong way. Yes. Exactly. There is NO wrong way to be nice, but that's not how I was feeling.
And my thoughts are constantly with Japan. I saw some video footage when I was in the Houston airport Monday night coming back from Florida, and it was all I could do not to just start sobbing right there (I was also a bit sleep deprived). I've been to Japan. It's a lovely country filled with beautiful, kind, and supremely polite people. Please, if you haven't, donate some money. Any amount helps. There are many good causes out there that are providing aid. I'm not affiliated with any of them, and I'm not smart enough to know which ones are the best, so I won't provide you with any links, but I'm sure you can all figure out how to contribute.
And to show our support, I won't be posting tomorrow. We'll be having a day of blog silence for Japan.
Happy St Patrick's Day!
In honor of the day, here are some of my greenest images from 2011 so far. Since green is sometimes my favorite color (and sometimes blue, and sometimes many other shades of the rainbow), it seems fitting.
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House on the Water
Someday I'd love to have a little house on the water. Doesn't have to be anything fancy, just a couple of rooms and the ocean outside. The smell of fresh salt air in the morning, walks along the shore in the evening whenever I feel like it. Simple, useful, small.
And yes. You can come visit me whenever.
And yes. You can come visit me whenever.
Florida From Above
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This is another shot that kind of worked through the plane window. I took this shortly before we touched down at the Fort Myers airport. And actually, now that I'm thinking of it, perhaps a lot of the problems that I attributed to the plane windows were maybe just caused by unclear air in between me and the ground, because this one is pretty good, and we were fairly close. Likewise the SF photo was taken when we had just taken off.
So today marks the 11th day of my March Manual challenge, and I wanted to give you guys an update on how it's going. Honestly, I'm enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would, and I'm finding it easier and faster than I expected. Yes, sometimes when I pick up the camera I forget to check the settings and so I end up with a completely white or completely black frame. But that's happening less and less. (And I've been so good! I think I switched out of manual one time. For maybe a minute. And that's all. I haven't even really been tempted.)
We've been shooting a lot of video as well, and manual is perfect for that. I wouldn't want to shoot in any other mode, honestly. You need the control. I have to use manual focus as well for that, so I'm getting some good practice doing things the old-fashioned way.
One thing I want to be doing, and I just forget most days, is posting my settings with each photo. I love when other photographers do that. Remind me when I forget; I'm going to make a real effort.
So, what about you? Manual? Aperture priority? Shutter priority? (I can honestly say I don't think I've EVER used shutter priority. Aperture is so much more important to me. Program? (P is for Professional!) Auto? Fess up, you auto users. Nothing to be ashamed of, from time to time.
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