Day 4 - L'artillerie

This was the high-point of the day at the market for Mr. They fired off several of the cannons at noon, and he loves that sort of thing. Him and every other man, teen and boy at the market. The crowd was very exited.

Unfortunately, I didn't get there in time to get a good spot, so I had to resort to holding my camera up and using my rotatable display to try and get a decent shot. I like my height, 170 cm isn't bad, but man, sometimes I wish I was a bit taller... A lot of heads got in the foreground of the shots despite my best efforts, even the perfectly timed one that showed a boom in full bloom. It would have been a slam dunk, but what can you do? It made me ground my teeth a bit, but you can't get everything I guess...

Fortunately, the knights stuck around after the show and I managed to get a few decent shots of them despite everything, I just wish I had gotten that one perfect shot...

/MrsHjort

Nostalgia

Ever since I got my very first camera, I've wanted to be able to shoot those pictures with that really really gorgeous bokeh. Of course, my first camera could do nothing of the sort. It was a simple point and click thingy, and it was back in the day when we still used rolls of film. My, how shooting has changed since then. I remember how carefully you chose your subjects, counting down the number of shots left, and the impatience, when you were waiting for the photos to get developed. They never turned out quite the way you imagined haha. You'd find out that the camera actually shot one meter to the right of what you saw through the viewfinder, or that all the pictures were leaning slightly to the left. But it was fun nonetheless. Ah, good times!

Don't get me wrong though, I would never go back there! I love the options we get with our new improved digital cameras. And, since I have a DSLR camera, I can finally get those bokehs I've dreamed about! They can really add mood to a shot, don't you think?

/MrsHjort

Count to 10

I just hate it when my computer won't do what I want. No! Scratch that! I just hate it when you install new things on your computer and all manner of other crap gets installed as well, without your permission or knowledge. Groan...

Today is my fist day with my new computer, which is awesome! I cannot wait until I get it all up and running again. The down part though, is that installing everything you use all over again involves some serious pains. Install one program and some mumbo jumbo computer fixer program gets installed as well. Install something else and some incredibly annoying search engine takes over your web browser, and, at the same time, a dingdong app adds 100 commercials to everything.

Furthermore, As if the numb nut programs weren't irritating enough themselves, the process of removing them is riddled by confirmations requests, and verification codes. YES I wand to remove this garbage from my computer, YES I am fully aware that I will not have this crap on it anymore, and YES remove
it now, do it fast, or else!

Sorry for today's complaints, but this nonsense really grinds my gears. I mean, don't people have anything better to do than inventing these bogus programs? I almost miss the good old days when you installed everything from piles of diskettes. Sigh...

/MrsHjort