Canon EOS Rebel XTi

I’ve been holding off on purchasing a new camera for a couple years now… simply because I know before it arrives on my doorstep, there will be 6 new versions of it that are better than mine and less expensive… and after all, I have been hanging onto my Sony Mavica now for some 7 years (at 2.1 megapixels, it is WAY under-gunned) but still took a beautiful shot… it’s all in the lens, my friends!  Yes, the megapixels  DO matter, but I’ve got a pocket-sized Casio that is 7 megapixels and doesn’t hold a candle to that Sony.

plus, the Sony wrote the images to a mini disc, so they exist somewhere besides the computer you copy them to… which comes in really handy if your hard drive crashes and you don’t have a backup (that’s happened to me too!)  That led me to ‘train’ myself to burn a CD EVERY time I empty my memory card so I always have the original photo to work from.  (I recommend making 2 backups, but that’s just me)

Anyway, being a photo major in college, it was beginning to get a bit shameful that I was carrying around this less-than-spectacular camera for so long… so with all due respect, I started looking for it’s replacement.  It wasn’t long before I fell in love with the Canon EOS Rebel XTi.  I had owned a Canon Rebel film camera in college, and remember LOVING the way it felt in my hands… it’s digital cousin did not disappoint.  With all the bells and whistles of MUCH more expensive cameras, it has 10 megapixels worth of fire-power… more than enough to last me for years!

isn’t she perty?  

the best part was the price… I bought it online at www.getitdigital.com  -  a company based on the east coast.  The customer service was amazing, which is a HUGE part of the buying experience for me.  I’d pay extra for that    but in this case, I didn’t have to!

 

Ming Fay

cleaning my house today, I came across some old papers I’ve been holding onto since college.  Once I looked thru them, I knew why I had hung onto them for so long…

I was an art major at William Patersone College (now University) in New Jersey, and had the opportunity to study sculpture under Ming Fay…  all I can say is this man is an absolute genius… my college boyfriend and I had the honor of working in his studio in Manhattan one summer… he had been commissioned for several pieces at PS 7 in Queens… it is still one of the best summers I’ve ever spent in my life… learning directly from a master.

one “google” later (I love you, Google!) and I found myself catching up with the master himself… seeing how his work has evolved over the years and being instantly inspired to dig out my old box of art supplies… the ones I used to spend hours and hours with before it became “inconvenient” to have dirty hands all the time (i.e. when I became a mother).  Anyway, take a minute to check out some of the breathtaking sculpture he has created over the years here:  www.MingFay.com  and prepare to be ‘wowed’.