Missed You.

I missed blogging. I don't know what it is, but it's just something that I actually enjoy. Maybe it's the practice writing this exercise provides. But somehow, it's quite palatable for me.

Right now it's 7:17am and I've been at work for almost an hour. I've been trying to coordinate something with a European partner of ours so because of the massive time difference I need to get in early. Otherwise we miss each other and it delays everything a whole additional day. To be honest, it's kind of frustrating.

I heard a story about a company that forced it's outsource company to work on their time. While honestly pretty cruel if you think about it, on some level that makes sense. Everyone in the world should work the same set hours. We can rotate so regions don't feel jacked or something.

I hear the discontenting murmur of the masses rise up in rebellion to this idea.

Recently I've been getting into photography. When I say getting into, I mostly mean I bought a decent camera and started taking pictures. I feel like I'm learning a lot about photography which is cool. I remember as a kid, I watched some murder mystery show, and in one of the episodes there was a professional photographer. I have no idea what happened in the episode or even what show it was. I just remember thinking that's a cool job. All you do it take pictures.

Fast forward and I'm in junior high. We take a family trip to this bird park. I end up going nuts with the camera and wasting a lot of film. I still have those pictures I took, my mom forced me to keep them. Not only that, she forced me to pay for the film and cost of developing it. At that point I guess it discouraged me a bit.

Senior year in high school I had this obsession with disposable cameras. Maybe all seniors do at that age. But that was fun. You don't expect much from those things so whenever a good shot comes out it's fun times all around.

Early part of college I got a APS film camera. I think that's the format. While the ability to change between black and white film and color film was fun, at the end of the day it didn't really cut it. I think that's really where I got into taking picture of inanimate objects, especially on a macro level. I should go find my pictures and see how they worked out.

Towards the end of college I got my first digital camera. It was actually used, had no zoom, and ran at 2.0 mega pixels. Not a lot of great shots came out of that I think. But it was still fun playing with different modes and also being able to capture anything on the fly. It was a really small camera.

Next up was a SD600. That was a little more fun. You get to control some more things inadvertently like shutter speed. But still not that much. But I'd have to say that's where it definitely started getting exciting. It was fun seeing how far I could push the camera and what I could do with it. Having this camera actually made me want to get a better camera.

So here I am now. With the starting baby steps I've entered into the world of digital single lens reflex goodness.

Yeah, that was a boring entry with no thoughts on life at all. I guess you need some filler every now and then.