mostlygardening

Last weekend I got a new camera “for my birthday” (which is in July). It’s a Nikon D40.

Now I know if you’re reading this, you’ve painstakingly looked through every last post and through my Flickr account and are thinking “You’ve had a D70, why are you excited about a D40?” Well, I wasn’t going to be.

“We” have had a D70 since we brought home AJ, our first pup.

(He’s three and a half now.) But I’ve also had my point-and-shoot, and that’s what I’ve usually been inclined to grab. Until I started gardening again. And walking/hiking more. So there’s been some push/pull about “our” camera. We each like to have it ready and waiting for us, set up the way we want, and it just can’t happen with two people who take different kinds of pictures.

He was trying to talk me into another camera long before these recent interests, but it’s been intensified recently. So last week I finally said okay. And I’m really having a good time with it. Here’s the other pup, Jake. He’ll be two on Monday.

Both of those were cropped out of one picture I took today, then this is the other ‘big’ shot of them today.

It looks to me like they were posed, but I was actually trying to take a picture of a spider that was fairly unsuccessful. And they just snuggled up together like this. Priceless.

This has even inspired me to make a separate photoblog. I’ll ‘blame’ Katie at gardenpunks for the daily photo idea. (Thanks Katie, I actually really like the idea.)

So hopefully, I’ll get this place updated, get the garden tended to, return some overdue correspondence. And settle in this weekend.