Category: Photos
Columbines
My columbines are blooming.
Evening Clouds
Looking West
My sister-in-law’s wedding reception yesterday was held at the UCCS Lodge, which included a lovely patio that faced west. This photo of the area which includes Garden of the Gods Parkway was taken about 9:00 pm.
Bride
My youngest sister-in-law is getting married today. I took this photo with my new camera last night at a big party held at another sister-in-law’s house. I am glad that I got the camera in time to practice a bit, because I got some good candids last night. I took a hundred photos yesterday, and expect I will take more today.
Roses
Not mine, unfortunately. Roses were so unsuccessful when I tried to plant them here two years ago that I haven’t gotten up my courage to try again.
Pikes Peak from Palmer Park
Since I was in the neighborhood Saturday morning, I walked for a while around Palmer Park. After the dry winters of the past few years, it seems remarkable to still see so much snow on Pikes Peak.
Lily
Rags and Lily
I took this photo this morning of Rags and Lily from the deck with my new Kodak DX7590 digital camera. The aspect of these photos are different from the ones that I took with my DX3900: I think they are closer in aspect to “traditional” photos.
Kodak EasyShare DX7590 Zoom
Here is a review of my new Kodak EasyShare DX7590 Zoom camera, which is an early birthday present from Jack. It has lots more features than my DX3900, but the most important one to me is the 10x optical zoom. I was sad when I couldn’t find it on the list of gphoto (used as a driver by gthumb Linux photo software) supported cameras. However, it finally occurred to me to check dmesg, which usually reports whether Linux is “seeing” a USB device that has just been plugged in. When I didn’t see any messages for my camera, I checked and found that I hadn’t seated the USB cable properly to the docking station. The next time I attempted to access my new camera via gthumb, it was recognized as a USB PTB Class Camera and I was able to download my test photos.
So far, the only downside of my new camera versus my old camera is that most of the surface of the camera is filled with the controls, back LCD and lens. I am used to holding my old camera with my left hand and adjusting the controls with my right hand, and the new camera has to be held with the right hand. I imagine I will adjust.