opal-marie

I haven't posted in a long while... Life sucks but I got a new camera. Not the one of my dreams but a better quality camera similar to my sisters [insanity-takes-over]. I've took a TON of pictures when we went to colorado but they are all on Cliff's laptop and I'm too computer dumb to get them off. Went to the Grotto with shirley to take pics but there was a wedding party there. who in their right mind gets married in September OUTSIDE? it was cold and rainy all day and the bride was wearing a dress that was off the shoulders... bet she was freezing her ass off. then I attended a wedding today.  and it was outside... WTF again cold and

Cliff figured out how I could download some pictures a few weeks ago. [the squirrel is a fav of mine. I love taking pictures, even though 99.9% of them ARE crap. One day I want to be really good. I just need to get out there and take pictures, figure out what exactly to do with my camera to get the effects I want and then go and take more and more. I'm just so damn tired of the snow. It's snowing again as I type this...thank god it didn't freeze on Friday when we were getting that super soaker of a rain storm. The streets would have been absolutely horrible. I can't wait till spring. My favorite blooms are lilacs and cherry blossoms *^_^*

Since I can't upload pics from my camera I've been spending more and more time fiddling with Picasa3 and reading up on how to take better pictures with my digital camera. I want to get a Canon EOS Rebel XSi EF-S. They're selling them at Walmart for a little under $600. I covets *rubs hands with glee*. However, that is outside of my current price range. I am going to save up for it but it will take some time. In the meanwhile I need to get good at what my little Sanyo can do. If I can't take decent pictures with that one then all the fancy cameras in the world will do me no good. I see what some of the artists/photographers on this site can