No, I’m not so deluded to think that my writing ability warrants any sort of award comveted by anyone not into self-deprecation, but i do have other skillz. I can only be speaking, of course, about photography.

Now i realize that anyone who knows me and has seen any of my photographic works might be more skeptical about my photographic abilities than my writing, however i implore thee to hear me out. If, by the end of this blog entry, not as convinced of my photographic accumen as i am, i ask that you please keep it to yourself. Barring that, at least speak up about it.

One needs only to check the picture banner at Undercanopy.com to see that i have somewhat more than a mere modicum of photo prowess.

Ah ha! see? Nevermind that they were taken off of video, they’re stills now. The problem with wideo captuting is that the resolution is quite horrendous — a mere .3 megapizel or so. My probm wil true still has always been that i suck at them, and the problem with improving has always been the effort, cost, and lack of immediate feedback of film.

Well kids, Jerm has just procured himeself a fancy-schmancy new digital camera. It’s small enough to take most anywhere, quality enough to make a decent print, and is capable of taking 300+ pictures on a single memory card with a single battery charge. It’s only 4 MegaPixels (unlike the 6 of the next model up or the 6.3 of the Digital Rebel, but it’s also the height and with of a credit card and 0.9 inches thick. I didn’t want having my camera with me to be a chore or a pain in the ass, so i went small. One day i’ll probably get a higher-quality camera, but this is good for now. It gets me away from film in a rather nice form-factor. It was also a hell of a lot cheaper than a digi-rebel.

This is one of the first pictures taken with the new camera. I call it “Death of a PC”. It wasn’t mine, nor was it my doing, but it was done with the bare hands of a very angry person. Scary ‘eh?