I got out the Olympus again this month, and so far this is what I have come up with (not very hi-res due to resizing):
The U.S. of A. August 14, 2008
Jetlagged and suffering from a ludicrously bad head cold, I have uploaded the pictures I took during my travels on the US East Coast. I will update my blog with more read-worthy stuff later, but for now, this is all I can manage. I need a bed. Or a doctor. Or maybe both.
An der schönen blauen Salzach. July 5, 2008
I just got back from Salzburg, where among many other things, I had the chance to try out my new camera. It doesn’t have numerical reflex and it is really only good for taking lovely holiday snaps, but I did manage to take some pretty good pictures with it. (For information on Salzburg, visit Pack Your Bags)
Mille Fiori. May 31, 2008
Every time I come home, our garden looks different. Yesterday was I greeted by a plethora of poppies where only a week before there was a sea of blue and yellow irises.
I confiscated my dad’s camera again (until he finds out where exactly I have muffled it away), and here are some of the results of lying sprawled across cobblestones to get the right shot:
If only I were a little better at this photography lark; these pictures don’t really do our garden justice, but you get the gist.
Spring flowers. May 5, 2008
We have a very small garden, but it’s chock-full of goodies. We even have a pond with a fountain – one metre diametre. It has one fish in it.
Here are some of the beautiful sights to behold in our tiny piece of what should be considered a garden, but is just a very carefully coordinated and yet slightly overgrown patch of earth.
Seeing the pictures put together like this, it all looks rather garish, but I like our garden nonetheless.
Twilight. April 17, 2008
Another lazy day, and as I am student, I of course have fuck-all to do. If I was taking a major in ‘sitting on my arse all day with interludes of strolling through the city, engaging in light physical activity and food gathering at the local supermarket’, I would graduate magna cum laude. And still, I pass all of my exams with mostly very good grades. I baffle myself sometimes.
So what do I do? Read, listen to music, watch films, write, be out and about. I always have the intention to do something productive, but then I get distracted and I am left watching half a season of Scrubs. Somehow I think I cannot keep affording the luxury of doing fuck-all. Meh. I will worry about that later. When it is too late.
While honing my skills in ‘fuck-allery’, I stumbled onto a goldmine of Twilight icons on ONTD. Trust them to make me say things like ‘lmao, omg! lolz!’ out loud.
And as the interwebs is made for sharing, I shall share with thee icons! And pictures! And giggles!
Somehow, I love doing these Twilight-related posts – any excuse will do to post some more Rpattz, am I right?
The best for last:
Flipping dazzling.
Frostbite. April 4, 2008
Dad’s camera is infinitely superior to mine, judging from these pictures I took during the Christmas holidays:
One day, I will have my own Olympus.
Not Duchess, but Roquefort. March 23, 2008
This is my cat. This morning we discovered she might be having an identity crisis.
We took out the leftovers and she went straight for them; that’s pretty normal, right? She dragged her freshly slayed chunk of leftovers into the conservatory and that is when we started wondering. It’s a slice of cheese, medium aged Gouda to be precise. I don’t know where this penchant for food usually loved by mice comes from, but it is pretty picture-worthy. As you can see, she doesn’t bite it, she just licks at it like fro yo. If you think eating cheese is not too crazy for a cat, I need to mention that she was eating orange peel moments before I took this picture. I can’t wait to see what she will do with that coconut husk.
Look at the birdie! March 15, 2008
After a two-week wait, I finally got my new camera delivered. It’s a state of the art Canon IXUS 950 IS, 8 megapixels. I have no idea what all of that means, I just wanted it to work and be within my budget. It looks pretty shiny and ‘ooh!’, exactly what little magpie me needs.
Pretty ace! Ace because I now don’t have to borrow my dad’s, and ace because now I can start taking pictures on holiday – which I never used to do, despite travelling a lot. Also, I can annoy my unsuspecting friends and photograph just about every random thing. Heck yeah. Here are the first two examples of randomness:
A tad bit pixellated due to resizing, but not too shabby, eh? Ok, ok, just photos, but hey, the money I paid for the camera makes them good photos. Doesn’t matter if I actually bought a crap piece of technology, just don’t tell me and leave me to admire the shinyness of my Canon.
Also, why did Chad Kroeger have to write that song ‘Photograph’? It’s stuck in my head now, and it makes me want to harm cute little things out of frustration. I think Nickelback has this effect on 99.99% of the population; the other 0.01% is actually deaf.
