Camera Blues

Wow, I haven’t posted since last Friday. Let me share my excuses with you. Saturday and Sunday I took a “Watercolor on Silk Class” taught by Susan Moyer. I got to experience many different ways to paint dyes directly on to silk. To save money, I drove around an hour on a winding road each way. So, I didn’t have time or energy to do anything for my blog on the weekend. After I came home from work last evening I felt like I was still recovering from a weekend on the go.

Yesterday morning I pulled my camera out of my purse and out on to the car seat. To my surprise, the little door on my camera’s battery was open, and nothing was in the chamber. That afternoon I went to our local camera store and ordered a battery. The camera lady said it would be 2-3 weeks. Today, I went to Walmart thinking that they might just have a battery for my camera. Alas! They don’t carry it.

One my options would be to play with some of my other pictures using Photo Shop, and then post them. Another would be to find a place online, order another battery and maybe get it sooner. That way I will continue to be able to take pictures. Or, I could use my other camera which is more cumbersome, and yet has more features. For example, I could shoot in the raw format if I knew how, but would take time reading directions. (Yuck!)

While picking up my Minolta Dimage A1, I accidentally turned it on. I tried taking a picture, but couldn’t remember how the camera works. This camera is counter-intuitive for me. Around a year ago, a got a smaller point-and-shoot Minolta. Since then, I haven’t picked up my big old clunky camera.