Remember Oscar?  This is him – Steph emailed me the picture today.  John pointed out that he looks really big here, but it’s really an optical illusion.  He’s actually really scrawny and small – 40 pounds or so on the day they found him.  Ian and I were giving him an outdoor bath because he smelled really terrible.  He smells much better these days.  (so I hear)

I want a new camera.  But since I can’t afford one, I’m trying to appreciate the one I already have.  It was probably new around 2003 or so – it’s a Canon Powershot Pro1.  I found it on Craigslist back in Santa Barbara.  Nothing too fancy, but a small step up from a point and shoot.  I know nothing about photography other than what I know from skimming the the Powershot’s manual (which I’ve since misplaced) and occasional googling.  Today’s project was figuring out how to focus on one subject – controlling depth of field.

Yeah, the subject is pretty boring, but I think I’m starting to get how to make my camera do this.  Maybe next I’ll move on to something more interesting.