May 17th, 2007
The Canon PowerShot S3 IS has arrived. The Canon PowerShot SD110 is out. Yay!
I have a lot of buttons to figure out. There’s a lot of features to learn. However, I can already tell just from toying with it even in the dreary, rainy, overcast light we have today that the new camera is 100 times better. It’s going to be so much more fun to use.
Tuesday night my mother pointed out that I was really hard on the SD110. I’m going to have to be much nicer and kinder and carefuller with the S3. I guess that means it might be a few weeks before I start being really daring with it. 
Here are a few of the 100 photos I took in the first day. I can already tell an amazing difference in the quality of the photographs the new camera produces. These were all taken from my living room through my picture window. I used to have to stand about a foot away from my bird feeder very still and wait without breathing for a very long time to get a close up of a bird…and still the photo wouldn’t be sharp enough to really identify the bird.
Tags: bird watching, Rusty Blackbird, Blue Jay, Northern Cardinal, Chipping Sparrow, photo blogging, Canon PowerShot S3 IS, camera, Canon PowerShot SD110
January 8th, 2007
You wouldn’t know it from looking at my desk at work, but I really have cut way down on my caffeine. I’m just way too sleepy now to carry the empties to the recycle bin. 
By the way, I edited this picture using the online editor at pxn8.com, which I heard about from Amber Rhea (PXN8: Awesome online photo editor) a while back and for some reason saved the post. Maybe I fore-knew that I’d be lured into this challenge.
One of the things I’ve noticed just in this week is that I’m going through life looking at things just a little bit different already. I look at everything as a possible picture, as a possible future picture…I think I’m even going through life a little slower. I’m definitely taking a closer, observatory look at the world around me as I drive to work or walk around or get ready for work or whatever. When I look at other people’s pictures, I’m trying to figure out how they captured the shot, the lighting, the angle, etc. I have a deeper appreciation for the more difficult shots.
I’ve been wondering if other folks have noticed this change in themselves.
And…it’s encouraged me to improve myself. I’ve ordered books on beginning photography and gadgets like the Monster Pod and Gorillapod Flexible Tripod and put a better camera on my wishlist all in the hopes of improving my ability so that by the end of this project, I’m not just snapping shots, I’m creating art.
Tags: project365, photaday, oneaday, Pepsi One, Diet Coke, Snapple, Nikon, Monster Pod, Gorillapod, tripod, photography, photo blogging, pxn8, caffeine, recycle, sepia, blue
