We were at Target the other day and the kids asked for stickers. I like buying stickers for the kids. They’re just fun. Harriet chose a pack of flip flop stickers. This is how she chose to use them.
…Win and Harriet thought that the trip was really for them to spend a week in Fort Wayne with Grandma and Grandpa. The kids are still telling me little stories of things that my parents did with them in Fort Wayne while we were away. Here are some pix that my mom grabbed of the kids on their adventure to the zoo, fair, and Chucky Cheese. They think the world of their “Gramma” and “Bah”
My dad has a raccoon trap. He likes to set it the night before we come with the kids. Then they get to check the trap with him. I think that Win is playing taps.
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… I can always give her a carrot and a peeler and earn myself 20 minutes of toddler free time. The carrot is really a causality in this situation. It usually gets peeled to death. But the extra minutes to get dinner on is so worth it.
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This might seem like a really simple tip, but it is a very common mistake. I often notice this first about point and shoot cameras. The lenses are usually really dirty. Clean lens can make all of the difference in an image. Yesterday I brought our point and shoot to the beach. About half way through our beaching I noticed that my camera lens was really dirty. Today when looking at the pictures the ones that I took before I cleaned the lens were really muddy, lacked color and were just plain bad.
Dirty lenses get in the way of clean images. They smudge up the image, they block light and your camera has to turn up the ISO, lower the shutter speed and open the aperture–all things that can make your images blurry, out of focus, grainy and blah color.
Here are 2 pictures that are straight out of my little camera. I set my camera on auto, I took a picture before I cleaned my lens and that again after. Can you tell which is which?
Before you drop a couple of hundred on a new camera try this. Get out a clean, dry, soft cloth. Spray the cloth with a little windex. Then clean the lens, don’t push too hard. Just gently wipe with the damp part of the cloth and then again with a dry part. Treat that little lens like you would treat your eyeglasses. If you are out and about just clean it with a clean part of your shirt. Don’t be too scared. You can scratch the lens, but it is more difficult than you think. It is well worth the risk if you can get sharper, more colorful, nicer pictures from your existing camera.
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by Rachel Henderson
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