Trial & Error

My wife scooted-off yesterday to meet-up with our daughter in Japan for a couple of weeks. Spending Mother’s Day on a plane isn’t ideal—but hopefully the food on the other end will provide some compensation for the inconvenience.

Today was the second outing with my new digital camera. The first was mostly an exercise in recovering from accidentally pressing something and trying to figure-out how to recover from my mistake.

While digital photography is still photography, cameras have evolved more than just a bit from old-school film SLR and rangefinder cameras. Buttons everywhere, menus with hundreds of nested options, and all kinds of new-fangled modes to make things “easier”. Then there’s the image editing software. It’s a lot to digest if you haven’t been along for the evolution.

Avoided the temptation to sleep-in this morning and headed-out, after a quick breakfast, to wander around downtown Richmond without much of a plan. While it’s something of a process, I’m slowly getting comfortable with the camera. I suppose it’s easy-enough to set the camera to automatic everything, but today I focused on doing everything manually.

Image editing is another matter, and a future challenge. In the meantime, here are a few images from my first two outings: Urban Landscape I and Urban Landscape II.