Brand new day

After a painful week or so of laptoplessness, I am back, with a brand new 22-inch monitor, the greatest mouse ever made (ok, maybe not, but it does have "BlueTrack technology" and, as Jeff pointed out, even works on the cat), and a more optimistic outlook on life.

To celebrate all this new technology, Jeff and I decided to take landscape shots along the Ottawa river. At sunrise. On a Saturday. Yes, we are masochistic; what part gave it away?

Waking up at 4:30am? Check.
Being almost the only people (awake) on the bus at 5:30am? Check.
Getting off the bus on the Ottawa River parkway just before 6am, in complete darkness? Check and check.
Freezing out respective rear ends off for 1.5 hours trying to get some decent shots? Very, very check!

The results:

On hiatus once again

I have a sad announcement to make. My trusty laptop of just about 4 years has decided enough is enough, and has handed in its resignation. Actually, that's not entirely true. Most of it is still in perfect working condition; however, the backlight on its screen wore out and now my display looks as thought it had been underexposed by about 3 stops, to the point where one can hardly make out anything on it at all.

Since I was planning to get a new laptop anyway, I'm thinking it may be a better idea to take this as a hint that the time has come for that upgrade rather than put more money into my old laptop. Since this has just happened in the last 24 hours, though, I'm still weighing my options, which may take a while.

The relevance of this news to this blog is that, since I won't have much access to my current photos, or much of a way of downloading and editing any photos I take from now until I figure this out, this blog will be on hiatus until I once again have some fully functioning form of personal computing.

Until then, wish me good luck. And be nice to your computers.

February in review

At first glance, it looks like my Project 52 has taken an overly long vacation. And that's partially true. But that doesn't mean I haven't been keeping busy photography-wise. Over the past month or so:

... Jeff and I have been working to develop Candid Light Photography. We now have T-shirts, a logo, a watermark, and business cards are in the works. May not sound like much, but weekends are only so long.



... We've also shot another salsa event, namely GoSalsa's Valentine's Day Gala.





... I've been playing with my feathered hair clips some more...



... and of course there are the cats. In between killing plants, breaking random things and eating me out of house and home, CB takes the time to give me the most disarming look in the world



Anyway. Now that things are settling down a bit, I am hoping to get back to more regular updates. This month the theme to focus on will be composition. Stay tuned!