gonewest

I’ve been bad this weekend. Well, not really bad, just your garden variety jumped-the-gun bad. I bought a Sony A100 DSLR on impulse yesterday while wandering about downtown. I had planned to buy a good DSLR this summer anyway, but the intention was to buy one after I move to the new apartment and start saving a lot of money on rent, not before I move.

By the way, did I mention that I am moving again? Seattle is a great city and I like the apartment that I’ve been in for the last year, but living in Queen Anne is more expensive than I am willing to deal with right now and none of the Seattle suburbs appealed to me (I’m just not a suburb kind of guy). I moved up to Washington so that I could seriously work on buying a boat — hopefully one to live on — not just to live in a big urban area (I was doing that just fine down in San Diego). I will be moving up to Bellingham for a while to cut the rent by a big margin and to see how I like the area (there is also a good marina nearby for when I do buy that boat).

I took a few shots with the new camera today. They came out rather lack luster, but then this was not a good day for playing photog. One of the shots is below; note how the bit of the boat in the foreground is slightly blurred to de-emphazise it, this is one of the effects that is much easier to do with a DSLR and one of many new techniques that I will need to learn. You can find more of today’s trial shots here (they are the files begining with “DSC”).

Oh yeah, I sign the lease next weekend so, if the weather is good, I’ll take a shot out the window (killer view) and maybe one or two of the place and post them here.