The B Word

Technology is a bitch....

You’re sitting there, one cool morning, looking in your camera bag, looking in your wallet, looking at the ads, and you decide you have to buy it: the newest DSLR on the block, the Primo Camera.

“Best camera in years!” rave the reviewers. “Get it now while we have it!” tout the catalogues. So you go online, figure out the shipping/extended warranty (This is the camera of cameras) and trade a few plastic digits for the thrill of taking really great images.

One morning, though, it happens. Your usually quiet camera starts mumbling.
“What’da say?”
“Oh, nothing, except I need another flash unit.”
“Oh really? Which one?”
“That very expensive one, over there on p.44 of your catalogue.”
“That’s it?”
“Well, maybe a new bag - this one you carry me around in is so....so....decrepit...and maybe a few fancy filters...but that’s all.”

Right. Never believe a camera when it says it wants only a few accessories. Especially a Primo Camera. They need primo of everything. Eventually your catalogue is in shreds, your bank account is low - but your camera is happy.

And you are, too, until that day.

“Forget everything you ever knew about cameras! The newest/best/quickest/brightest camera is here!” rave the reviewers. “The PRIMO CAMERA.”

Wait a minute. You already have the Primo Camera, but it doesn’t look like the one in the newspaper. Then you see it all - Primo Camera (I) is out to pasture, Primo Camera (II) is the new King of the Hill. And of course you have to have it. It has parts the other cameras just dream of. It sings, it dances, it makes a mockery of what passed for high camera technology just a few months ago. Slowly you take out your wallet....

Technology, it IS a bitch.

Signing off, for now...
Darlene

Presumptuous First Post

My son blogs daily. His posts began in ernest (I believe) around the time Hillary and Obama began dancing the Presidential Nomination Rag. Later on, as the campaign worked its way toward Nov. 4, Raymond [pure/roker] had the incredibly ambitious idea to work his way down (or was it up?) the alphabet, political idea by political idea, ending on Nov. 4. 

Bottom line, he didn't get to "Z" by Election Day, so he's now aiming for Inauguration Day. But what his blogging did do, for me, was to create an ambition to learn more about blogging. And of course, learning comes with doing...

Unlike my son, however, my plan is to concentrate on my photography - artistry, technology, vision. My web site [En Plein Air Photography] is up, running, and sorely in need of improvement. My second site [the City Seen] is still being formulated.  So with all the work I need to do with those two projects, why would I take on another task? Simply put: to get the creative juices flowing again. Put myself Out There, and I'll have to make good on my promise. 

One down, more to go...

Darlene