I have been taking digital photos since we were given our first 1.2 Mpx Olympus as a wedding present in 1999. I loved it because I could take as many pictures as I wanted and throw the failures away with no sense of guilt. Henry loved it because he didn't get to worry about the costs of developing the photos, and we both loved the fact that there is no longer an escalating pile of shoeboxes full of prints that we haven't even got time to look at, let alone organise into albums.
Over the years I have graduated from the Olympus through a succesion of compact cameras with more mega pixels and greater manual control until my resolve not to go the monster dSLR route finally broke down in April 2007. I have found that far from never getting out of the house, my Canon EOS 30D goes with me whenever I can bear to carry its large bag. It is so easy to use and so fabulously competent that I find I can take the kind of shots that I had only dreamed of in the past. Of course I still have a lot to learn and each session is a lesson in "next time I should..." But here are the first results - about 5% of the shots I took at the Ultimate Air Dogs competition at Traverse City's National Cherry Festival in July 2007.
A whole year later (I can scarcely believe it) and here is the Ultimate Air Dogs event at the 2008 Cherry Festival. Although at first glance the photos look pretty similar to last year, they have more resolution (you can make bigger prints from them) and they are generally sharper with more detail.
I have finally cleared some time to upload the photos that Henry has been choosing to show how beautiful Traverse City is. I think that there will be further instalments of this project as we keep finding other great spots.
Jul 2008 Beautiful Traverse City Traverse City, MI, USA
Jul 2008 Ultimate Air Dogs Traverse City, MI, USA
Jul 2007 Ultimate Air Dogs Traverse City, MI, USA
Copyright © 2007
Jacqui Morgenstein
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