Author: doug

February 9

2009, meet 1999.
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I took advantage of Circuit City’s going out of business to buy myself a new pocket-sized camera.  It will see use primarily for this very Project 365 (in fact, it did for yesterday’s photo), but I will also use it for travel & social events where the DSLR is a chore.

The venerable old Coolpix 950 has served me well — it went with me to a lot of places, including Africa, and took thousands of shots with very few hiccups.  Its 2 megapixels are more than sufficient for web work, and even 10 years old it takes a fine photograph.  It was state of the art when new.  But by modern standards it is huge, slow, and heavy.

The new camera is much smaller, much snappier, has a very nice screen, and a quite useful 28-280mm (equivalent) zoom range.  I hope it serves me as well as its predecessor.

February 7

We continue to look at a lot of houses, in order to keep on top of the market so when we finally do sell we can act quickly.

One of today’s houses has a nice kitchen:
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Yes, fisheye… the walls are not curved 🙂  I like to use the fisheye for these house-hunting shots because it gives a good representation of the feel of the room and captures a lot in a single shot.

February 2

Groundhog day!  I did not see my shadow today… in fact, there was ocean-effect fog & clouds on the south shore this morning as I approached Quincy.  And despite the lengthening days, it was dark already as I left work.  After a long day, I am glad to see the following sight:
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Who needs a Stairway to Heaven?  I’ve got an elevator down to the first floor, the car, and home.

February 1

Well, I made it one whole month with Project 365!  I can’t say every picture is as interesting or as artistic as I might have hoped, but each day has a photo taken on that day.  Let’s see if I can keep it up.

Today’s photo is about house-hunting.  Some houses deserve to have stone lions along the walkway.  They are grand homes, the type of country place where you’d visit a wealthy uncle for a week and have your own room with a fireplace, and the staff would wake you at 10 for breakfast.

The house where we saw this lion (and its partner) was not such a house.  It is a nice house, lovingly modified and decorated by someone whose priorities are quite different from our own.  But it does not deserve a lion.
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