I've only been home about a week since my trip to Europe but I'm ready to start sharing photos from my trip! I took about 2400 photos. I showed my family about 300 of them and that took an hour and a half. Anyway, I spent a couple weeks in Italy, a few days in southern France, a couple weeks in Spain and a few days in Portugal. The trip could hardly have gone better. It only rained on me a few days and train trouble and late opening times caused me to rush through a couple sites but that's about all the trouble I had.
Overall, the trip was very inspirational and has given me plenty of ideas to work with in my creative journey.
My new digital camera arrived today! It is my first digital SLR. I've only played around with other people's DSLR cameras in the past. I got the Canon EOS Rebel T1i 500D. The reason I didn't get the T2i was because it was more expensive for features I don't really need like 1080p video.
I only have one lens now which is a Canon EFS 17-55mm f/2.8 IS. I'm not an expert on lenses yet but after doing some research I thought this would be the best lens to travel with. And I mean for carrying it around week after week. I plan to use it for dimly lit interiors where flash isn't allowed and landscape shots.
Another lens is on the way. It is a Canon
My last journal post was titled "Water Everywhere" but that would make a good title for this post too because our city has been flooded with water! I got up later than usual this morning and it was storming outside. I figured I would work at home for the morning and let my dog Buddy outside to go potty when it stopped raining. I read on Facebook that a friend's basement got flooded. I checked my house after reading that and found a few feet of wet carpet in my art studio. I got the dehumidifier in there now.
I also read that some streets were flooded but I had no idea how bad it was until I headed to work. Just down the street, someone's hou