[Cally Conan-Davies]

And it's an inny.

[Cally Conan-Davies]

I always think it's an orange. That part where the orange was joined to the tree.

I always have an urge to peel the moon, and look under its skin.

[Jesse Anger]

Hey Cally-O,

On a camera note. There are a lot of really great DSLR's out there right now for under a 1000 dollars - fully functioning manual modes - shutter speed, aperture, ISO, focus point. It's endless really. B&H is a fantastic place to buy cameras online. But as good as DSLR's are I feel the micro 4/3's cameras are smaller, slicker, and just as sharp quality wise. LUMIX G5 or something, very affordable, very good. I didn't realize you were using a point and shoot. There's a little bit of a learning curve but a lot more control and way better photos to be taken with a more supple camera! Here's a beauty -

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...al_Camera.html

There's light/ let there be...

Love,

Babe

[Cally Conan-Davies]

Oh, Babe—I am just out the door now because the tide is going out and the light is low and great. It's the hour of the heron...

I get all shuddery-juddery just thinking about having my hands on a DSLR. I've never even held one!!! The really good thing about only having a point and shoot though is that I had to learn EVERYTHING it could do to make the most of it. I am so grateful to the little thing—it has shown me so much...

But oh, for lenses, for a big mother of a sturdy tripod, and for instant shutter click, and control! It's a world I wait on the edge of...

(I just realised that last sentence makes me sound like Frankenstein!)

All I want before I die is to go to Iceland with quality equipment. All that water! All those puffins!

Thanks for the link, Babe! I'll start planning...

Sunset! Low tide! Heron! Away...!!!

[Mario Pita]

Cally, that picture of the moon looks like it was taken from one of the Apollo missions as it was arriving in lunar orbit, and it’s hard to believe that it, along with the beautiful ones of the moon seen through a window of pine needles, was taken with a point and shoot. You would work wonders with an SLR, and must make the dream of using one come true!

Mario

[Cally Conan-Davies]

Looking at the moon, closely, is a real experience, isn't it, Mario? If I could get a ticket for a moon mission, or to the space station, I'd go in a wink! I would also like to go to the ocean floor, deep. Like James Cameron did.

I've got a really rickety tripod which is almost as good as useless because when I press the shutter, it wobbles. So I always end up taking the camera off and holding it myself. My hand is steadier than the tripod! I love dressing the rising moon in cloche hats made of leafy branches or long wind-bent grass.

I know the SLR will happen one day, maybe even soon. I know there are a couple of people keeping their eyes open for really good secondhand SLR cameras. I am truly excited at the prospect. When I get one, I'll let you know.

I'm so glad we shared this blue moon, everyone!! Thanks for starting the thread, Janice!

Cally

[Janice D. Soderling]

You're welcome, I'll start more moony threads if it will haul you back into posting.

Looking at the moon, closely, is a real experience, isn't it, Mario? If I could get a ticket for a moon mission, or to the space station, I'd go in a wink! I would also like to go to the ocean floor, deep.

No one doubts the truth of that.

[Roger Slater]

A non-rickety tripod can be had for 20 or 30 bucks, so there's no real point in putting it off very long.

DSLRs are great, but be sure to have a look at mirrorless cameras like the Sony Nex, which take remarkably fine pictures (their sensors are as big as the DSLR sensor) but are almost as compact as a point and shoot, so you can easily have it with you at all times (the DSLR is bulky enough that you might sometimes leave it behind and then regret it).

[Jesse Anger]

Yep, Roger, I agree. I've got a LUMIX GX1 - it goes everywhere and is as good as just about any DSLR. Have you seen the Sony RX1? It's a full frame but the same size as a micro 4/3's - pretty pricy though.

I just need that Leica 25mm lens for Panasonics...

Mirrorless all the way.

[Cally Conan-Davies]

Holy ISO! I don't even know what 'mirrorless' means!!! I have work to do...

I'm going to Seattle next week. Great camera shops there, I'm told. I'll do some research.

What really engrosses me though is not the tools, but the relationship between seeing, composition, and poetry. About how the whole world of photo making plays into the writing of the poems. I'm writing an essay on it.

Have you guys read Robert Hass's What Light Can Do? I'm right in the thick of it now, and loving it. Inspired.