I have to tell you, this camera is awesome. It’s so much fun to be able to take shots I couldn’t before. I always enjoyed just taking pictures of the kids but it’s been a blast experimenting with things, especially the macro feature. Above are two of my necklaces. I never could have gotten it that crisp and clear before.

I’ve also gotten to be a total dork and am now taking an obscene number of self-portraits because I joined the 365 Days group over on Flickr. The objective is to post a self-portrait a day for a year. I did miss a couple of days over the holidays but I’m up to 25 shots so far. I’m trying to avoid too many straight old “here’s my face tilted slightly and a half-smile” slef-portraits because that would get boring (though I do have a couple and haven’t written them off). The challenge, really, is to try to come up with new ideas. It helps that there are many mini-challenges on the discussion section of the group where you can get good inspiration for the self-portraits.

My own 365 Days set is right here if you have some sort of interest in seeing them. Right now a bunch of us are doing a week-long challenge to photograph an interpretation of each of the Seven Deadly Sins. Naturally I did Sloth first (hee) and today I did Greed. It’s entertaining me. And if you’re taking part in 365 Days too, let me know!

I actually started using Flickr just to share a few photos from time to time. Then I realized it was silly for me to overload my hosting account by continuing to upload images here and taking up all kinds of space when I could just post them on Flick and then put them on my blog. But now I’ve gotten really interested in a lot of the different groups over there, especially ones where you can get feedback from people.

If I had realized how much of a camera fanatic I would become, I would have taken Photography back in college!