Sick

Well, today I am sick. Actually I was sick yesterday but didn't want to admit it. I needed new dress shoes and Alcy agreed to go along as a consultant. Good thing she did or I would still be needing new dress shoes. Last night convinced me. I wanted to stay in bed but I just get too antsy, I have to be really, really sick to stay in bed when the sun it up. So I decided that I could get out my boxes of CD's and do some organizing. I could sit in bed and do that. I should have known better. I am not an organizer. All I have accomplished is having stacks of CD's/DVD's on every remaining flat surface in the house--including the entire bed. Not sure where I am going to sleep tonight. May have to go to a motel or check into the local ER and see if they will keep me.

Instead of organizing I am perusing ancient CD's. Trying to figure out how all the Excel files I wrote back at Enovation work--didn't get very far with that, the gray cells have grayed considerably. Reading the hundreds of pages I have written on almost every subject I can imagine, mostly photography--pretty depressing. And the biggie, looking at old photographs from the Fuji and the Minolta. I am not sure whether or not I am correct about this but I'm about convinced that I was a better photographer back then--or maybe I had better equipment or maybe it was just naive  beginner's luck.

These photos are from 2001, my first year with a digital which ended my fifteen year hiatus from photography. Janet and I always did everything together so when she could no longer participate in photography I stored the cameras away and we got into genealogy. In 2001, I showed Janet a photograph in a magazine that had been taken with a digital camera. It was a very impressive image. Up to that point I thought digital cameras were toys. I didn't realize at the time that the camera that had been used was $14000. She insisted that I get a digital camera and get back into photography. I did, but not with a $14000 camera.

I ordered a 3mp Sony A10, $1800, from Broadway in NYC. Slock house sent me a European model that didn't have a USA guarantee--gray market. I returned it and was out $150 on that little mistake. Eventually decided on a Fuji 6900Z at less than half the price, which is what I was using when I took these photographs. I've upgraded a number of times since then but I am still impressed with how good a camera the Fuji was. I gave it to my brother when I got the Minolta and on my last trip to North Texas he gave it back to me--it was too complicated for him to use. Doubt that it still works but who knows, one day I might try it out.