A day at the beach
I did it again. Hours, alone on the beach, basking in the peace of the waves, wind and sun. God I love the ocean. I dug my fingers and toes into the sand and felt connected to the cosmos. Great stuff.
The enormity of the ocean reminds me that my problems and concerns are of little cosmic consequence, which always makes me feel better. My mom once said that it made her feel tiny, inconsequential, and that was unpleasant. Funny, because it makes me feel tiny and inconsequential and that is so liberating, so empowering, so... balancing. Same ocean, same sands, same beach, same sky, same feelings, totally opposite readings on them. Amazing, no?
I also did something I'd never have expected of myself. I met people at this conference, and we talked... and I offered to pick them up from the resort and take them to the seafood place. Belle, the most anti-social and misanthropic person of her own acquaintance, took a giant risk/step and made a date. Not with the man of my dreams, but with strangers I thought might be interesting companions. It wasn't successful, but I did in fact go get them, and we did have dinner. Baby steps.
Bought my first slr camera!
About a week before my son was born, I bought a digital camera. I wanted to create a baby book for him that would include not only his first year milestones, but also photos to capture his physical growth over his first year of life. I wasn’t sure which camera would be best so I went to Best Buy and talked to a sales representative. He helped me sort through the features and select a digital camera that would be best for my project.
If you’re a technology freak, you’ve probably owned a digital camera for years. But for someone like me, making the switch from traditional photographs to a digital format involved a leap of faith. It’s not that I don’t appreciate technology, I just wondered how good the pictures would be from a digital camera when compared to my trusty 35mm. So I bought the camera, brought it home, and began snapping pictures.
One feature about a digital camera that I love is the ability to review the pictures before printing and saving them. You can take a series of photos and then choose the best one without worrying about wasting film. But the most important feature, the one I was most worried about, was the quality, and I have to say that I was very impressed with my camera’s ability to turn out even better pictures than the ones taken with my 35mm.