Description: Life can be hard. Be harder.
After many years, a few false starts, and plenty of my patented Talking About It All the Time But Never Doing Anything to Progress the Situation Along (patent pending), I finally bought myself a nice camera. Up to now, the fanciest camera I’ve owned was an HP point and shoot, and while it took surprisingly good pictures, I’ve always wanted a nice camera, like with interchangeable lenses and all. A quick shout out to my better half, Mrs. Circlepit, for encouranging me all these years to just shut up and buy
And I did shut up and buy a goddamn camera, already, and I’m enjoying it very much! I got a Lumix GX85, and it came with a 45-150 mm lens in addition to the 12-32 mm kit lens. I also got a macro 30 mm lens, and I’m very excited about that one. I dont really know what I’m doing yet, but I’m enjoying the process of learning, and that’s very exciting. For the most part, when it comes to skills, I’ve never been a huge fan of the learning process. It’s why I don’t play a musical instrument, or draw, or paint (I
Anyhoo, here are a few pictures I ‘ve made over the past few days. I kinda like these. Maybe you will, too. Unless you don’t like birds. If you don’t like birds, you won’t like most of these pictures. I’m writing a thing about my other new-ish Old Man Circlepit obssession – i.e. , birding – for posting here soon-ish. If you don’t like birds I have to assume you won’t care about that, either, but if you do like birds, and looking at picures of them, well, buddy you’re in for a…”treat” doesn’t seem like quite