Playing with the new camera!!!!

Luna - She loves to pose !!

and sleep

and Stare

Father's Eyeball

One of my many low allergy flower bushes - can't remember the name


(sick kid - but humored me)

We played around with the new camera this weekend, using all the lenses and different settings.

Father gave me (or rather us) for our anniversary a Nikon D80 10.2 Megapixal Digital SLR Camera, along with Nikkor lenses 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II AF-S DX Zoom, 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED-IF AF-S VR Zoon, 2x teleconverter, 52mm high quality close up kit with +1,+2, +4 lens, and 52mm and 67 mm filter kits.

So, in the spirit of using my, err our, new camera setup, I decided to do Project 365 in which you take a photo a day of your life, a photo journal, and post it. The three major reasons as cited by Project 365 are:

• Imagine being able to look back at any day of your year and recall what you did, who you met, what you learned… (Often we find it hard to remember what we did just yesterday or even last night, let alone a whole year ago!)
• Your year-long photo album will be an amazing way to document your travels and accomplishments, your haircuts and relationships. Time moves surprisingly fast.
• Taking a photo a day will make you a better photographer. Using your camera every day will help you learn its limits. You will get better at composing your shots, you’ll start to care about lighting, and you’ll become more creative with your photography when you’re forced to come up with something new every single day.

So, get ready to go on a photographic journey, filled with glamor, excitement, entertainment... Nope, that's the life of a celebrity and wouldn't want to have it for anything in the world. Our journey will be filled with interesting and the mundane, beautiful and the not so beautiful, the joyful, liberating essence of nature and just pure nonsense. Stay tuned!!!!!!