oh fuckityfuckfuck!

it seems i've killed the camera :(
i was giving it a once over before going down to london tomorrow (sunday), checked the batteries, put in the 2gig card to check- "kliklikliklik-" goes the camera and then dies.

damn!
... and i think it's the card that fucked up the camera...

lost...

i used to have this comic/magazine, wish i still did.

if anyone knows where i can get hold of it (cheap, preferably ;) let me know.

xposted @

musings

... on an incomplete...

... i was going to say life, but that may be a touch overly dramatic...
i was gonna do a quick review of the year 2008 but that hasn't happened. and other things too, but...

still, this week has been positive so far. yesterday (tuesday) my 30d finally came back, repaired and fully working. i also ordered a new lens for it, a sigma 17-70mm 2.8-4.5 and that came yesterday too. that cheered me up :)
so... time to take some photos, i think. hmm...


this afternoon at work i had one of those... moments that demonstrated to me just how much things are changing between the generations. i took a passport photo of a little boy, probably about five years old. he was polite and well behaved and avoided smiling when put in front of the camera*.
eventually :)
anyway- the point: his mum decided they would wait while i printed the photos and when i handed her the photos she was trying to explain to him what those things in the little yellow boxes in the metal basket were. i am of course talking about kodak film (the fuji was gone...)
it seems odd to me that there's a whole new generation of kids growing up who may never know what photographic film is, indeed may never need to know...
it reminded me of an article i read in... i can't remember where, but the writer was telling of how his daughter was baffled by her inability to navigate through the photos on the screen of his digital camera. because on the iphone she'd just touch the screen, slide her fingers about and stuff happened! but with the camera... you gotta press buttons? god, that is sooo last century!!!
and seriously, iphone or not, i really do believe that the nippers do think that way. while we got really excited about one hour photos they are disappointed with that new mobile phone because, you know, you gave them the wrong one...

... and the camera's only vga...




*children almost always seem perplexed when told not to smile when photographed for their passport photos. unsurprising really, as up to this point every time a camera was pointed at them they were instructed to "smile!"

about half an hour ago (as i type) Barack Obama became 44th president of america.
apparently they were a little bit late and Barack fluffed his lines a little but hey- probably a bit nervous- it is a big job he's taking on... and proof to me that like most of us he is human.
:)

i must say tho, Aretha Franklin's national anthem was a bit odd... if only Jimi Hendrix was still around...

reverend Joseph Lowery- that dude's cool ;)

... and i was reminded of Caitlin Moran's piece in yesterdays the times... made me laugh!, especially the moonwalking bit...

pin money

where i work (a camera shop) we have various photography type things on display...
anyway, we have a kodak digital frame on display in the shop (the 10" one) and show it of i put these photos on it. this morning a gentleman came in and offered to buy them. the photos, not the frames.
so i sold him the set. a cd of 27 dragonfly pics for £50 in my pocket! the week has started well...