I’m feeling ambivalent about the return of my digital camera. My husband kept asking if I was happy to have it back in hand, and my answer was “Meh.” Honestly, it took me a good 45 minutes to figure out how to re-attach the slide strap, and I finally had to watch a YouTube video to get it right. In the repair process, every camera setting was reset to the factory default. I had to go back through all of the settings and try to remember how I had things configured. (Thankfully, I still have access to the Creative Live course that I used to get to know the camera). Today, I took the camera out for a practice run only to return home and discover I still had the image quality set to JPG rather than RAW. (This, despite the fact that I know I selected the RAW setting. I guess I didn’t hit save or OK or perform some other menu deep secret move). It’s still so very hot in Virginia and the mid-morning light is overpowering. Everything looks crunchy, but I gave it my best, taking a few photos with my digital camera and the same views with my 35mm film camera, too. It’ll be interesting to see how the film photographs compare with the digital views.
In the meantime, I am happy for
the nice people at PhotoVision Film lab who answer every question personally and kindly
cool air conditioning and episodes of Outlander
the book, Emotional Inheritance, recommended to me by my friend Kate, which just explains so much
all things peach - including the book, PEACH with photographs by Amanda Greene
Bedrock sandals, which allow me to keep walking mile after mile without aggravating my plantar fasciitis
the thunder storm brewing outside right now, hopefully bringing cooling rain