My very own personal community! I have no idea what's going to go on in here, tbqh.
Camera fun time!

I've been wanting to do more photography. It's something I've loved since journalism in high school. Only I barely got the basics back then (in the olden days of having to learn my way around an actual dark room), because I was a stronger writer, and then the editor in chief, and so I couldn't be mucking about in the dark room all the time. Ah well. Then in college the photography class always filled up in a matter of seconds. I glommed onto my girlfriend when she took it, and learned what I could second hand from her. (I did the same thing when she took ceramics. She took that at the same time as my room mate, and I think I went to that class more often than my roomie did.) (Why wasn't I an art major?) So it finally occurred to me to look for more professional camera apps for my phone. Finally! Macro setting that is really macro! Manual focus! OMG! So I can push myself a little further with a $2 app than dropping $500 on the Nikon I want. (I really want. It must be mine.) I'm pleased with how the stuff I poked around with right now came out. I'm thinking my next splurge is going to be a proper macro lens for my phone. A lot of my friends who are into photography do landscapes and big things and need the crazy telephoto lenses. I love macro. My favorite things to take pictures of are like individual flowers and insects. The snails have been a lot of fun lately. I am kicking myself because I got some neatly composed pics yesterday, but they are juuuuuuuuust out of focus. So very frustrating. Hopefully this app will solve it (Snap Camera HDR), but never again will I see that tiny snail moving from a vertical plane to a horizontal one. sigh



