About

Me?  I’m a photography nut.  I love taking pictures.  This all started when I was a kid.  I had the infamous Kodak 110 and the Polaroid “shoot the picture out, coat with preservative” type, and 35mm Canon.  Then I discovered digital.  WOW! is all I can say.  My first digital was a Kodak 2.5 megapixel.  It was great for its time.  Since then I have advanced some, currently owning a Kodak 10.1 megapixel camera with a wonderful zoom lens on it.  I love being able to “see” my pictures BEFORE I print them and know that they are in the camera.  Even though the 35mm was versitile, I didn’t know until the film was developed whether or not a particular picture was going to be good or not, or if the camera was working properly, etc.  That can be a bummer if you’ve gone on vacation with a non-functioning 35mm and you don’t know it until you get back home.

I also love being able to print my own pictures, edit them, enhance them, or delete them (especially if they are crappy).  I have a free photo editing program, PhotoScape, which allows me to play with my photos, create cards, scrapbook pages, etc.  You can find this free program on the web. 

Thought I better add to this as I have been posting mostly on knitting lately.  Knitting is one of my most favorite things to do in addition to taking pictures.  And I love taking pictures of things I have knitted.  

Lately, I have been doing crochet tutorials for a friend who is a beginner.  The hardest part is taking pics of each step of the process and getting them just right so that they are “understandable”.

Every year I enter our local fair a knitted item and have been forturnate enough to win blue ribbons.  Makes me happy.  This past year I entered a knitted purse and, for the first time, several photos.  I won a blue ribbon for the purse and a blue ribbon for one of the photos.  So I will continue to do both and enter both in our fair.   And I encourage all of you to try it.  You never know, you may come home with a blue ribbon or two.