Catching Up.

It's been awhile and there's a lot to catch up on. First, here is a layout I did recently after an unplanned trip back to my childhood home. I completely forgot my camera, so I took these photos with my cell phone. From a photo quality perspective, they suck. But they mean something to me and helped me tell this story. Someday I will take a trip up there with a better camera. Click on either to enlarge.

And speaking of cameras, after at least a year of research and envying every person I saw with one of these, I bought this mean machine. The next day I purchased a copy of Canon EOS 7D for Dummies. The title fits.

My RebelXT was a faithful companion for five years, but at a mere 8 megapixels it just couldn't keep up anymore. I've rationalized spending the equivalent of two months of mortgage payments by planning to shoot David's senior pictures. That'll save me around $500 right there. Of course, it's already cost me another $100 in bribe money to get David to cooperate with that plan.

Almost immediately after taking it out of the box and charging the battery, I headed to one of my favorite places to take photos - the State Capitol. I'm pretty pleased with the results.

The view facing east on Locust Street. Yes, I am standing in the middle of the street!

The gold dome of the capitol

From the capitol steps

Reflection of the Capitol on the Henry A. Wallace building.

But my very favorite subjects are people. Here is a candid of Hannah at this week's 11U World Series Softball Tournament. I think this pretty much captures who she is. She and her team mates played some incredible softball. I'm increasingly impressed with the skills these 12 year old girls have. Any one of them could run circles around me.