Category: Things I Find Cool

Megapixel Myth Intro

I started taking photos in my youth with one of Canon’s first SureShot 35mm cameras. After years of taking little to no photos at all I got my first digital camera in 2004. It was a 2.1 megapixel point & shot HP my Pops gave me. Since then I  have gotten newer and bigger pixel cameras, most used point & shots, and have continued to learn from them. The one thing I have learned is not to chase the pixel, as in this never-ending “my camera is better than yours because I have more pixels than you” war that has being going on for well since there were pixels. Later down the road I will give you my opinion on why more is not better but for now the short answer is this: No camera can take a great shot. It is a combination of skill, learned or natural, following your passion (a.k.a. shooting what sings to you while challenge yourself with that does not sing to you) and technology that makes a great shot.

Here is two pics I took this afternoon with a 4 megapixel Canon point & shot. Since I like rusty things I like both of theses for the texture of them. Till the next time keep taking the shot and always Enjoy!

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A Few From Last March

Unlike this March last year’s was warm but very moist, as we had more days of heavy rain than I can recall in the recent past. When a friend ask me to take Engagement pictures of her son and his bride to be I said yes weather withstanding….then they told me where they wanted the photos taken. “Next time ask first” I thought. No matter I was all and since I was doing this as a favor and we could have a redo if need be. I headed days before the shot to scout the place out. It turned out to be  one of the few cold days that we had that month. Oh, and it snowed a light lovely-none-sticking-anywhere- snow off and on most of my time there. I took the below shots on the scouting trip. The building was part of a water supply facility and the stream one of its feeder streams. Maybe sometime I will tell you how we had to hike a few mile down and then out of the area on the day of the actual shot  due to the roads being flooded .

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Missing Me Damsel

With Spring  just around the corner I cannot wait to get some shots of my favorite things. One of the first will be my beloved Daffodils, go figure, and then hopefully some time soon some of my favorite flying things. I love when the bees show up and the Hummingbirds get up North but I really want to get some more pics of the wonderment know as a Damselfly. Till then here is one from last year.

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Raptor On A Wire

As I was walking from my car to the house after work today I spied something sitting on the power wire going to our house. I came in a grabbed my Canon Powershot SX10is and took the following shots.  I know we have Red-Tailed Hawks, Barred Owls and an occasionally a passing Peregrine Falcon but I cannot identify this raptor. A little help from any birder watchers would be helpful. Till the next time, Enjoy!

(Side note: Spell check did not like the way I spelled raptor and changed it to rapture. That is why I need to edit my stuff a little closer).

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