Introduction

Obligatory Wordy Introduction

I’ve “maintained” a blog on (my) life, the universe, and everything for a bit over a year now, but quite frankly the task of making it into everything I wanted it to be proved too daunting. Begun as a way to document my victorious adventures, I branched out into everything from my ironman training to dreary journaling to memoir-style creative writing, but most of the trips and adventures I actually wanted to write about never made it past the artfully architected thoughts in my head. Not surprisingly, since I lacked a focus and many of my posts were too intimate to share with the world, I never found nor encouraged a broad readership.

I don’t expect to get much readership here either, but I do have 2 goals for myself:
1. Stick close to the main focus – which is primarily photo-journaling my various adventures and photography trips, with an emphasis on the photography aspect.
2. Don’t worry about making each post artful or precise; just get the words out somehow.

So there you have it – in a nutshell, if all goes well, this will be a semi-regular stream of myopic un-premeditated drivel about this amateur’s foray into photography. Which is of course a very long synonym for “exciting!”. 🙂

Equipment:

• Canon EOS 50D – at the time I’m writing this, my primary camera
• Canon EOS 7D – T’s camera that we occasionally share.  It makes the list because there might be somewhat frequent content on here from that camera.
• Pentax K100D Super – hand-me-down from a friend who was disillusioned with carrying DSLRs.  I rarely pick it up anymore, but I sometimes pack it if I’ll be somewhere without a battery charger since it uses standard AAs.
• On the slopes: Pentax Optio W90 – brand new so the jury’s still out.  Review forthcoming.  Also a proud new owner of a GoPro Hero, so I might play around with video at some point.
• From the hip: Canon PowerShot SD950 – because it’s easy to use, reliable, fits in a bike jersey pocket, and I’m not convinced the Optio will really fit all my P&S needs just yet.