A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.
~ Robert Orben ~
This blog is taking a vacation. I’ll be back in two weeks.
Provence is waiting for me. I’ll be back with loads of pictures to update this blog!
Trying to get to know "Big Guy" Canon D40. It's a whole new world trough the viewfinder ...
Date: 2010/07/13:58
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/13 sec
Aperture: 10.0
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 38.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich,
by promising to protect each from the other.
~ Oscar Ameringer ~
Date: 2010/06/11:35
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/30 sec
Aperture: 10.0
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 83.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash
"Life holds so many simple blessings, each day bringing its own individual wonder."
~ John Mc Leod ~
Date: 2010/06/8 9:24
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/320 sec
Aperture: 7.1
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash
If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.
~ Toni Morrison ~
Date: 2010/06/7 13:37
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/1250 sec
Aperture: 7.1
Exposure Bias: - 0.33 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash
Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.
~ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin ~
Date: 2010/06/5 12:05
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 100
Exposure time: 1/640 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 64.0 mm
Metering Mode: matrix
Flash Used: no
Exposure: portrait mode
White balance: auto
Everyone smiles in the same language.
~ Author Unknown ~
Date: 2010/06/5 11:28
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/320 sec
Aperture: 13.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 64.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: program
White balance: flash
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
~ Stacia Tauscher ~
Date: 2010/06/4 18:32
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/4000 sec
Aperture: 9.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 28.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash
Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern;
it will come out a rose by and by.
Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently
and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
Date: 2010/06/3 14:06
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/20 sec
Aperture: 14.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 17.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: auto
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
~ Peter De Vries ~
Date: 2010/06/2 15:32
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/160 sec
Aperture: 9.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: auto
Dirty hands, iced tea, garden fragrances thick in the air and a blanket of color before me,
who could ask for more?
~ Bev Adams ~
Date: 2010/06/1 16:49
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/640 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 30.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: auto
“The water is the same on both sides of the boat”
~ Finnish proverb ~
Date: 2010/05/31 8:34
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 13.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: auto
Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
~ Ashley Smith ~
Date: 2010/05/30 13:30
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 640
Exposure time: 1/40 sec
Aperture: 7.1
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 30.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
~ Marcus Aurelius ~
Date: 2010/05/29 18:48
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 800
Exposure time: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 16.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 85.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment
which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words.
Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Date: 2010/05/28 17:19
Model: Canon EOS D40
ISO: 400
Exposure time: 1/500 sec
Aperture: 16.0
Exposure Bias: 0.00 EV
Focal Length: 44.0 mm
Metering Mode: center weight
Flash Used: no
Exposure: aperture priority
White balance: flash
"Ships are the nearest thing to dreams that hands have ever made."
-Robert N. Rose