An imperative
Anyone that follows this blog, assuming there are any at all, knows yrs trly purchased a new camera-body Monday, July 9, 2012.
It’s a Nikon D7000, an upgrade of my D100, at least 10 years old, which failed during a train-chase in Altoona, PA.
I considered fixing the D100, but have wanted to upgrade for some time.
Had the D7000 not cost as little as it did, I probably would have fixed the D100.
Since July 9th the D7000 sat on my inside picnic-table, my dining-room table.
Normally I would have tried it as soon as I got it, but since my wife died April 17 I am not awash in confidence. —In fact, I have none at all.
But today, Sunday July 22, I had an excuse to try it.
I was supposed to attend a high-school graduation party for a grandniece, and this could generate a blog.
I try to illustrate such blogs with a photograph, which in this case would require the D7000.
The graduation-party. (Photo by BobbaLew.)
Okay, I’ve been there.
I can’t blog it; the muse is quiet ever since Linda died.
What depresses me most about attending these parties is how out-of-it I feel.
I’m off in the ozone — I was like this at a recent wedding I attended.
Relatives I know were there, my sister-an-law Carol, her daughter Debbie, Debbie’s husband Kevin, and Christina, their daughter, my grandniece.
It was at a restaurant; we had a small buffet.
What matters is that I successfully drove the D7000, with flash, which is much like my D100.
There are still things I don’t understand about it, but only in the past year or two did I start getting anywhere with my D100, and that thing is over 10 years old!
• My beloved wife of 44 years (Linda) died of cancer April 17, 2012. She was 68. I miss her dearly.
It’s a Nikon D7000, an upgrade of my D100, at least 10 years old, which failed during a train-chase in Altoona, PA.
I considered fixing the D100, but have wanted to upgrade for some time.
Had the D7000 not cost as little as it did, I probably would have fixed the D100.
Since July 9th the D7000 sat on my inside picnic-table, my dining-room table.
Normally I would have tried it as soon as I got it, but since my wife died April 17 I am not awash in confidence. —In fact, I have none at all.
But today, Sunday July 22, I had an excuse to try it.
I was supposed to attend a high-school graduation party for a grandniece, and this could generate a blog.
I try to illustrate such blogs with a photograph, which in this case would require the D7000.
The graduation-party. (Photo by BobbaLew.)
Okay, I’ve been there.
I can’t blog it; the muse is quiet ever since Linda died.
What depresses me most about attending these parties is how out-of-it I feel.
I’m off in the ozone — I was like this at a recent wedding I attended.
Relatives I know were there, my sister-an-law Carol, her daughter Debbie, Debbie’s husband Kevin, and Christina, their daughter, my grandniece.
It was at a restaurant; we had a small buffet.
What matters is that I successfully drove the D7000, with flash, which is much like my D100.
There are still things I don’t understand about it, but only in the past year or two did I start getting anywhere with my D100, and that thing is over 10 years old!
• My beloved wife of 44 years (Linda) died of cancer April 17, 2012. She was 68. I miss her dearly.
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