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05 Tuesday Apr 2016

Posted by sulis303 in family, health, life, loss, nature, technology, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, camera, computer, eyefi, histograph, iPad, iPhone, pictures, snow, Technology, widow

happy today to get my camera back from the hospital… it had been there for a couple of weeks and I was really missing it…

  
pleased it wasn’t an expensive fix and it is back to its usual wonderful self…

  
am going to have to re-enter all the info about my eyefi to get it connected again, so that will be a job for the next few days…

had a friend look at the Olympus to remove the histograph from the view on the screen… I had tried a few times, without any success, to delete it as I find it distracting… he couldn’t figure it out either, lol…

had some fun downloading pictures from my iPhone to my computer at work… this was great because I had taken 77 pictures of an event last week and wanted to get them into a folder on my office computer and didn’t want to send them in groups of four by email… much simpler and way quicker… 

technology is great when you think about it…

just this afternoon we were looking at a form we had used six years ago when I started… it collected all the information but was handwritten so then we had to guess what had been entered… now, we email a fillable form which comes back typed and makes entering the data simple… if it isn’t filled out when a person arrives, we have an iPad available so that it can be completed in the office…

here’s the view out the window today…

  
enough with the snow already…

Olympus…

30 Wednesday Mar 2016

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balloons, big girl pants, camera, feast, moments, Olympus, sky, widow, window

last night I happened upon one of those moments… looked out the window as I was heading downstairs and thought I needed to check out the view from the living room… 

 
and this is what I caught… beautiful…

been taking quite a few pictures with the Olympus this week and rather pleased with these ones…

  
colourful balloons as a centrepiece… 

  
and balloons in a plant…

this one came out nicely as well… 

 
lovely feast…

had been worried that the shots wouldn’t come out as I am still working at refamiliarizing myself with the Olympus… 

happily, they turned out well… phew…

view…

22 Tuesday Mar 2016

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big girl pants, camera, iPhone, orchid, photoshoot, teammate, view, widow

this morning I wanted to take a few pictures in the living room… the hyacinth is almost in full bloom and the orchid is quite lovely…

my camera wouldn’t work… tried all the things I could think of but nothing seemed to make a difference…

was very stressed because we were going to a photoshoot and I wanted to record the process with pictures…  


finally put the camera away and used my iPhone… this was my view of the new orchid… beautiful…

the photoshoot went well… I find it fun to watch the photography team work with the client…

  

my view of them keeping the conversation going to relax the person being photographed…

  
my teammate produced a smile even as she was feeling stress about the whole process… she really didn’t want to have her picture taken…

  
checking out how the shots came out…

when it was my turn we talked about how much easier it is to be behind the camera as opposed to in front of it… I posed as requested and didn’t bother to see how they came out… one thing I’ve learned is that the person in the picture isn’t usually able to see how great they look, so I was happy to trust the professionals…

watching Ian take the pictures you could often see when he knew he had the photo he wanted… in my own way sometimes I have that feeling…

he had a peek at my camera and figured out that one of the buttons was stuck… I couriered it over to a local repair shop and hope they can fix it… haven’t heard back yet…

camera…

18 Thursday Feb 2016

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big girl pants, camera, iPhone, light, Nikon, Olympus, photographer, sd card, solar, wifi

been taking lots of pictures lately with my camera… I really love my Nikon…

  
have had it for many years and love the way it fits in my hand and the great pictures it takes… I also have an Olympus, but it just doesn’t have the same comfortable feel to it…

often take pictures with my phone because it is easier than pulling out the Nikon and then downloading the shots to the computer and emailing them to my phone to use in my blog…

today I was speaking with a professional photog who talked about a different type of card which will act as wifi and send pics directly to my iPhone… have already done a bit of reading on them and will be heading to Henry’s on the weekend to learn more and hopefully get one… woo hoo… 

 
took another few pictures of the solar dragonflies in the garden… enjoying the extra light every day…

focus…

03 Wednesday Feb 2016

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big girl pants, camera, focus, light, moments, snow, snowflakes, sunshine

every morning it is lighter… makes me so happy… took this picture as I stepped out the door…

  
sun shone for a good portion of the day… as I drove downtown the sun lit up the windows of the Hydro building…

  
but, as the afternoon progressed, the snow started falling… it was still falling when I left the office…

  
I had a great time cleaning off the car and taking pictures of snowflakes… temperature wasn’t too cold and I  enjoyed about fifteen amazing minutes focussing on getting some great shots…

  
had to clean it again at the end because it was snowing the whole time… what fun…

when I arrived home I took out my camera and spent another few minutes catching snowflakes…

between the light and the snowflake photos it was a glorious day… 

walk…

24 Monday Aug 2015

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big girl pants, butterflies, camera, flowers, Journey to Churchill, polar bears, relax, walk

spectacular day…

up early and walked over to the Park… the Assiniboine is lower than I’ve seen it in many years…

  
had a wonderful breakfast with a dear friend at the Park Cafe… quite like their Black Bean Benedict…

  
cool but sunny… we had a leisurely walk through the zoo… quiet, and enjoyed a wonderful time in Journey to Churchill…

  
this is one of the three newest baby polar bears…

  
enjoyed the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden and found some cute caterpillar friends…

  
spent a fair bit of time with my camera taking pictures of butterflies and flowers… my friend was very patient, lol…  

I took a wander through the Gardens before walking home…

  
finally had a chance to see the new statue just inside the entrance to the English Garden… nice…

  
borders are at their best right now…

  
caught a frog by a purple water lily…

spending time in the Gardens brings such relaxation and peace… reminds me how lucky I am to live within walking distance of such a special place…

flying…

23 Tuesday Dec 2014

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Advent, beloved, big girl pants, camera, chickadees, Christmas, dragonfly, flying, nuthatches, pistponed, the "A"

this morning my Advent gift was a very glittery purple dragonfly… which flew right to the Christmas tree…

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talked with the kids in Ottawa before they headed to the airport…

my son-in-law came by and we walked to the “A” for breakfast… lovely time… I held his arm for part of the walk as it was fairly icy… brought back memories of holding hands with my beloved whenever we walked anywhere…

got a call from Ottawa to say the flight was delayed and then another to say it was cancelled for today and they wouldn’t be flying home until tomorrow…

spent some time feeling sorry for myself, had a nap and went out for a few errands… the last I hope…

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sat in the living room and watched the chickadees and nuthatches flit back and forth to the feeder which my grandson had filled on Sunday… dug out the tripod, found the remote and waited for them to come back to the feeder… and, of course, they flew off and never returned, lol… only picture I got was of the camera on the tripod…

trying to remain positive that the kids will really arrive tomorrow… did get a bit of extra time to finish preparations…

changes…

11 Wednesday Jun 2014

Posted by sulis303 in life, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, camera, changes, iris, mobile

last night I went outside to sit and watch the stars and enjoy my new mobile…

20140611-214720-78440405.jpgthe kids had given me a couple of them a few years ago, but they did not handle the winter weather so I ordered more and they just arrived… didn’t stay out very long because the mosquitos were out in full force…

when I got home today I noticed that the purple iris in the back of the garden had opened, so I took a picture…

20140611-220324-79404698.jpgearlier today my camera advised that it had run out of memory… a bit like me today… then I had to delete pictures so I could finish taking the ones I was working on…

only got a couple of jobs done to prepare for the kids’ arrival tomorrow night, but that was all I could manage… still feeling rather tired these days…

guess I am going to have a lot to do tomorrow, lol…

apps…

23 Thursday Jan 2014

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App of the Day, apps, big girl pants, Burst, camera, MBlog 2014, Technology, The Bloggess

downloaded the App of the Day app on my phone and have been enjoying some of the apps that come up… I always like to give the photo apps a try…

downloaded Burst a few days ago and think it might be a keeper…

fish tank...

fish tank…

been taking lots of shots of the fish as they tend to move around a lot…

this app takes bursts of pictures in increments from 5 to 1000 at a time… I have tried 10 and 50 and will give the higher numbers a try over the weekend…

fish looking for food...

fish looking for food…

once it has taken the pictures you can look at them one at a time and save the one(s) you like to the camera roll…

looks like I can raise the quality so will give that a try…

looking forward to testing this out on the boys when they can’t sit/stand still for me, lol…

new technology, yay…

just noticed that The Bloggess has moved to WordPress… looking forward to meeting her next weekend at MBlog 2014 at the UofW…

 

camera shy…

25 Wednesday Sep 2013

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big girl pants, butterfly, camera, camera shy, in the shop, sunflower

ia couple of days ago someone asked if I had taken a picture of the beautiful sky…

I said that I hadn’t but didn’t mention that my camera is in the shop… I have really been missing it… the shutter hadn’t been opening properly for a few weeks and I was having to touch it to get it to open all the way… a couple of days ago it just quit opening…

I talked to someone at the store where I had purchased it and they gave me the name of a repair shop in the city to take it to… they also suggested it might be cheaper to just buy a new camera… I said I didn’t want a new camera because I really like this one…

at the shop, the woman who helped me, said they all say that, lol… they send a quote by email and you can accept or reject it… if you accept it, they go about fixing your camera… not sure what happens when you reject the quote, maybe you get your camera back in bits and pieces… anyway, they are working at fixing it and the price wasn’t at all bad… but I am missing it…

today, as I was leaving home, I got a picture with my phone of the sunflower… I think it now has all the seeds filled in, but don’t know how long it takes to be ready, or maybe it is ready now that it is all filled in…

sunflower this morning...

sunflower this morning…

I ran out to pick up some lunch and going down the lane I spotted a butterfly landing under a car and got a shot of it, not a very good one though… I’m sure the people walking along thought I was a bit nuts…

butterfly downtown...

butterfly downtown…

I am gong to be very happy when I get that camera back…

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