The Start Of It All: Part 1

So as I said in my last post. I'll post some photos of my album on my personal facebook called "Slowly Dying of Boredom" until I get some newer boredom photos. I'm posting three today, and then tomorrow I'll post three more and be done.

The three pictures today are from my church. Let me just say that during a certain time in my life going to church was one of the few places I felt like people actually cared about me. I'm not much of a religious person and I don't want to start any religion/anit-religion fights on here so just shush up and leave your thoughts to yourself.

 Here is a pencil that, by definition, I stole from church. I needed a writing utensil in my purse and I didn't have any pencils or pens at home. I eventually returned it after I got a pack of pens.

 My name tag that I always forgot to put back after church. I did eventually remember to put it back before I moved to FL. So if I ever went back I could grab my name tag and new peoples (cause I know all the people that went to church when I did would recognize me) will know who I am.

Here is the fellowship hall (I think that's what it's called). The lady I drove to church with plays piano during the first service, but that day she had to play both so I stayed in the fellowship hall until it was over. I was not going to sit through the later, and what seems like longer, service  One is enough for me plus a lot of people at the later service don't know me and I'm not for being social around people I don't know that well.

I'm not sure what tomorrows will be. I think I'll do the things that I do when I'm bored.

I'm Back For Now

So I finally came out of my summer of rest after the long summer I had watching five boys. October was super busy for me, but now until December I'm free and the only weekend I could see really hindering my blogging is Thanksgiving. (I live in America and celebrate it if you didn't know.... I don't think I wrote that in my last post, maybe I should rewrite that and do a better job)

I have another post to write about my nephew. I did another little faux foto shoot with him and although it's not as cute as the impromptu one I did before the pictures still turned out very nice. I also still have the post about how my old boredom photography that I used to post on my facebook. I'm sure by the end of this month I will also have a fall/thanksgiving post to write. In terms of blogging this month will be a busy one and hopefully make up for the lack of in October and the lack of that will most likely happen in December.

Meet the Photograper

I don't think I've added a picture with me in it yet. Nor have I really given a real background of my photography side. So here it goes.

My name is Samantha and I'm nineteen (and a half, birthday is five months away so that's less than half way... duh). I live in Florida with my sister and (almost) four year old nephew. I moved down about a year and a half ago from Colorado.

 I started photography after one of my neighbors turned me onto it somehow and then the birth of my nephew turned me into the doumenterer (is that a word?? Yes but it's spelled this way documenter, just funner to say it the way I spelled it) of his life and the rest is history.

I have a Canon powershot sx230hs camera along with a DXG 580-V camcorder and some nikon point and shoot pocket camera, plus a canon powershot s95. Both of those however are my sisters', though I use them regularly. I'm in the market for a "new" one. I say "new" because by the time I save up the money it'll of already been a year or so old and could be out of date technology. Hopefully my mom will be getting me one for Christmas though, but she's not the best at getting "big" presents like that, especially when I live 2.5k miles away from her.

I don't go to school for photography so most the stuff I learn is from the internet or just on the go learning. My main subject is my three year old nephew, I also photograph my sister's dog, as well as some nature surroundings. That's pretty much it for now. I live a simple life and take photos....


So here we go... a picture of me.... you guys don't know how hard it is for me to post this, I normally stay behind the camera. But since I know like no one reads this blog I suppose I can make an exception.

 Yes that's me... I know probably not what you were expecting, but is it ever.

 Me and my nephew. Don't worry those two photos were taken the same day.

Ok so maybe I like to wear that shirt a bit too much... But anyway This is me on a pier in FL.

I Fail At Blogging

Yes I know don't say it. I know I fail at blogging and I don't know why I even try. Don't worry though I haven't been doing anything worth wild that would give me a good excuse for not blogging so that I could come back and do a long post about it. I even fail at the photo challenge I was doing. I got to day two and stopped. Plus the new facebook page I started is still without a million pictures and only has three "likes". It's because it's not summer. I watch multiple kids over summer vacation, so my personal summer is the school year. Like everyone else I don't feel like doing anything on my personal summer, and the weather doesn't help any either. Today it's all rainy and thundering and a perfect day to hang out on the couch watching movies and drinking hot coco. While I'd love to do that today, I have my nephew to watch (he's only three, he'll start pre-k next year though) and unlike me all he sees is a day that's going to be spent coped up inside so he has to make as much noise as possible and annoy the crap out of me.

Here is a picture of the sunset yesterday.

It's just something to get you non existent readers to keep you happy until I dust off my camera and get bored.... I think I'll crack open my ancient photo album on facebook that was really where my first boredom photography started. That's what I'll do tomorrow. So watch out for it.

Day Two: Outside

I'm totally cheating on this day. I didn't happen to get any pictures because my camera had to charge. I was looking at the list to see if I would have any intentional cheat days (old pics, pics from the internet etc.) and I found four. Day 8, day 16 (but in all fairness it is supposed to be), day 22 and day 25. Also any unforeseen circumstances could make me use cheat pictures.

But here is today's. Outside. I took this picture during Tropical Storm Debby. I wasn't in an area that got hit with damage, just lots and lots and lots of rain. Because I was cooped up inside for three days I thought the only thing worth doing would be to take a picture of the rain.

The New Camera!! YAY!!

So here it is. My new and very much loved Canon. After about three months research I finally found this camera. I had a price range of less than $300. I knew I could get lots of good point and shoots and even a couple good compact systems. I had some major requirements though. They were as listed.

• Long optical zoom, at least 10x
• At least 12mp
• Had to have a child/pet mode. With half my pictures being of my nephew I knew it'd help having a special mode just for kids.
• Had to have image stabilization. 
• Had to be a reasonable size. I wanted something I could take everywhere with me, and it wouldn't be weighing me down.

Short list of wants but when you slap a price tag of less than $300 you get an even shorter list of good quality products. I also based my choice largely on reviews of other people that used the camera everyday and seemed to have some knowledge of what they were doing. I knew I wanted either a Nikon or Canon. While on the home stretch of camera hunting I had narrowed my choices to this, my sisters (a canon power shot s95) and one other, another canon. The other Canon, can't remember the name of, I had been looking at met all my expectations, except that it was bulky. My sisters camera was a compact system with 5x optical zoom and 10mp. I knew that it wasn't what I wanted but I still liked it and with the time frame of me needing to find a camera closing in I was just about to load that one into my cart until....

... I met it. It was like the church choir sang while rays of sun rained down around me. It was perfect. Perfect price tag (about $250 about tax) 14x optical zoom, 12 mp, optical image stabilizer, child/pet mode, even had quite a few different scene modes. Including miniature, toy camera effect, color accent, fish eye, poster, snow, firework, underwater, foliage, low light, beach... ok so I did name just about all of them but come on they're some pretty cool scene modes.

Here's a generic picture of it, I thought this best represented how the product was and with no other good cameras in the house I'd be taking a pretty crappy picture of it.

Day One: Name

This is the first day of the thirty day photo challenge. It just says name, so I assume it could be any name. I decided to use mine. I wanted to get creative so I did it in sign language.

I know Sam isn't technically my name, other than my grandma, nephew and mom (sometimes), everyone calls me Sam. It's just my name. I get confused when people call me Samantha and half the time don't even respond. Every one introduces me as Sam too so after time it just becomes natural to be called Sam but write Samantha on paper.