We are already saying goodbye to September as the year flies by. The last few weeks have seen me out there learning how to take photographs with a proper camera, as you will have noticed from the proliferation of pictures of birds, flowers and the sea that I have been posting. I find the zoom function fascinating, as my artistic side comes to the fore with attempts to photograph the inside of a flower or the eye of a lizard, or perhaps capture the sunlight shining through a breaking wave. Birds in particular are a challenge as, by the time I have removed the lens cap, pressed the On button, found the bird in the viewfinder and then zoomed in on it, it has long since relocated to another tree. Add to that the removal and replacement of my glasses to enable me to spot the bird in the first place, and you can see that a lot of time is spent doing everything but take the picture. But the different functions and settings are another thing altogether. By having to reset them for virtually every frame, I have had some total flops and others that exceed my expectations.
I recently found that nothing was coming out satisfactorily and so I headed to the photographic shop at the local mall to seek expert advice on what I was doing wrong. I tried to explain as best I could what I wanted to achieve, and the man took the camera and captured a shot of the inside of the shop, pronounced it to be perfect and that I should just practice. In other words, I was a complete idiot and was wasting his time. I will remember that when I upgrade to my R40 000 camera one day at the shop next door.
Here are a few of the successes!
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