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December 31, 2004

Photoblogging [Badly]

Yesterday, our cabin fever got the best of us, so we headed east to the town of Port Hope. We had lunch at our usual haunt in town, the Palm Restaurant in Dr. Corbett's Inn: highly recommended if you're ever in town. Just as evening was coming on, I remembered that I hadn't played with the Treo camera much lately, so you're going to be reminded of why I'm not paid to take photographs:

Ganaraska River

This is the Ganaraska River, looking north from the Highway 2 road bridge. Really, it looked a lot more, um, focussed when I took it, I swear!

My unindicted co-conspirators, Victor & Elizabeth:

Victor and Elizabeth

This is the view from the south side of the bridge, looking down towards the two massive railway viaducts across the south end of town:

Ganaraska River

And then it got too dark to take further bad photos, so you've been saved from that even worse fate.

Posted by Nicholas at December 31, 2004 12:49 PM
Comments
Hmm. Why is it that the photos from your <1 megapixel Treo look remarkably like the photos from your 5 megapixel Canon? Wuzzup with that? Posted by: Jon at December 31, 2004 01:33 PM
I think it just proves that the camera does not make the photographer, yes? No matter what the camera resolution, good photos are not likely to be the result when I'm operating it. Posted by: Nicholas at January 1, 2005 12:13 PM
Well, don't let it get you down. Remember that afternoon in Brantford when I just kept snapping away with the ol' SLR? Remember how I only began to think that something was amiss when the frame counter pegged 48 images? On a 24 exposure roll? I'm tellin' ya -- it's our damn cameras! Posted by: Jon at January 2, 2005 09:24 PM
No, it won't get me down. I've embraced mediocrity as an unachievable goal in photography! ;-) Posted by: Nicholas at January 3, 2005 08:59 AM


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