Camera

I wish I could my camera all the time.  Today for instance, I was just at the gym, thought I wouldn't need it.  But I work out at a gym with ninja's.  I don't mean to say these people are sneaky or have murderuos tendencies(because I'm not sure) I'm just saying they're ninjas.  Today a man walked in with a Naginata, in case you're unsure, it looks badass.  He sits down, and he starts on the rowing machine like he didn't just walk in with medieval japanese weapon.  I don't think this is the most effective weapon in a fight, it's not discreet and does not shoot bullets as far as I know, but it's probably damn good at making sure fights don't happen.  You don't mess with someone who looks like a warrior out of an Asian cartoon.

Don't make me go Anime on you

First picture in my blog, and I found it on the internet!  But I assume if you read this you are probably friends with me on Facebook and can see the pictures I put up there, I upload them approximatly, whenever I feel like it.  Although I will eventually get all my pictures up on Facebook at some point there will always be a great number of undocumented events I just forgot to bring my camera along for or tasks that my little powershot just can't handle. 

One  of the most annoying problems with my small picture taking device is that it likes to auto adjust to the lighting situation.  What this means is that even when the photo is meant to be dark the camera tries to make it appear light with either a flash or a shutter speed of a second or more.  So at night, or when I'm underground, all my pictures end up looking like a photo of the lock-ness monster because I can't use the flash on anything that's furthur away than a couple feet away.

But the main problem is that I'm just not patient enough to be a good photographer.  That's not to say I give up on something when it gets too hard, on the contrary if I can progress little by little I will devote hours to an activity.  But for me most great photos that aren't still lifes or landscapes require waiting in a location where it would be possible for a great picture to take place.  Nothing happens and nothing happens and nothing happens, and then BAM all of a sudden, nothing happens.  After about ten minutes I would give up, and as soon as I put away my camera there would be an amazing photo op that lasts for about three seconds.  I find photography very frustrating.  Like this one recent example, in San Sebastian the city is literally on the edge of the ocean, the only barrier is a break water and thirty foot high wall, but sometimes this is not enough to stop the water from getting over.  A few days ago I was out for a run during a day of high waves, about one in ten would splash over the wall and spray salt water in my face.  One wave was so large it sent a gyser forty feet in the air, well above the wall, and landed right on top of the only car on the road.  Since I don't live in an action movie he did not fly off the road and explode, instead he just turned on his wipers and continued driving, forces of nature be damned.

If there is great demand I will start posting some select photos on the blog, but if you want to see pictures that bad, you're better off using a search engine.  After all, Google doesn't miss the ninjas.