Reason #461 it’s great to own a digital camera:
I discovered recently that I hadn’t adjusted our renter’s insurance since we got married (yikes!) and now we have a lot more stuff. My insurance company suggested that I document all the contents of my house, make a list with values of all my worldly [...]

I take a zillion pictures every week. Chloe is probably the most photographed kiddo in the land at this point. But the trouble with being the family photographer is that I’m never in the pictures! I realized this significantly during a trip Chloe, our friend Wendy, and I took to the [...]

Ever get wildly over-exposed shots because the flash is too bright or too close? Does the light from the flash look harsh and unflattering? Here are two easy ways to fix problems with your camera’s flash…

Ah summer… I said at the beginning of the season that I wanted a real summer, with bbq, sprinklers, juicy peaches, the beach, the farmer’s market, and swimming pools, and I’ve gotten it ten-fold. Seriously, this has been a wonderful summer, made all the more so by watching all these wonderful things [...]

I’m terrible at writing thank you notes. Everyone in my family knows this. So when Chloe was born, I was daunted at the thought of all those thank you’s when I had a newborn to care for. But the camera was always in my hands in those early weeks, and I’m [...]

While pumping gas yesterday, I took this shot thinking I would put it in Chloe’s baby book to show how “low” gas prices were when she was a little girl.  Hopefully, there will be some kind of brilliant new fuel in the future and we will not need gasoline anymore.  I’ll be driving my [...]

Sometimes you need to think the way a digital camera thinks. All it knows is to take a light meter reading based upon where you point it. Most cameras base their light readings on the center point of the image because that’s usually where people put their subjects’ faces. But doing [...]

I like taking all kinds of pictures when I travel to trigger memories, particularly of things that might slip my mind later in life. Sure, I’ll always remember the ice storm, but will I always remember the leaning tower of blocks or spaghettiface? I like to record pictures of hotel rooms and funny [...]