Cassiopeia and My Camera

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Cassiopeia and My Camera - Well old Cassie might have been the queen to end all queens, but she does not hold a candle to the little Casio camera that my good buddy, Rod, gave to me this morning. Cassiopeia does have five bright and shining stars to sit upon up there in the firmament opposite the "Big Dipper" constellation. but this little Casio rig has, among other things, a 200+ page operator manual (big enough to sit upon...). I can understand why a rational human being might want to pass this camera along to a friend. It is going to take a lot of work to learn how to use it for the making of reasonable photographs. There are two things about this small-size camera that I immediately like. One big thing is the small size. I can hold it in one hand and, when I carry it in its holder attached to my trouser belt, It does not cause me to tilt sideways from extra weight. The other thing that is very nice about this camera is that its image resolution is very high compared to the several cameras I ordinarily use. What is going to be a bit rough on me is fighting my way through that huge operator manual. It is intimidating to understand how much I am going to have to study and to learn in order to make good photos using this Casio camera. As I sat in the back yard, studying the manual, our new friend, the corn-loving deer showed up to see if we had replenished the corn in its corn bucket. We had done so. As it did its corn thing behind the fence, I took its picture, the photograph at the top of this posting. It does look to me as though this little camera is getting ready to do some big jobs. I hope so. Image: Corn-loving Deer - Gus Kilthau