We expect a sunny day with mild temperatures tomorrow, one that starts just below freezing before climbing 30 degrees to our daytime high.

I intend to take full advantage of it.

You see, tomorrow will be the first day when I can take a walk with my new camera.  Thanks to the generosity of friends and family who gifted me with money, I’m now in possession of a marvelous piece of photographic equipment, not to mention the various accessories I ordered.  It’s all arrived, from the tripod to the lenses to the camera itself.

Yes, I’ve been playing with it.  You’ll probably see the fruits of that experimentation as soon as I get the photos downloaded.

But tomorrow. . .

Ah, yes, tomorrow.

As I’m often wont to do, I enjoy walks at the lake early in the morning when few others have invaded this urban paradise.  Sometimes it’s already busy; mostly, however, it’s an Eden unto itself, one made just for me and invaded by few other humans, at least when I go early.

I intend to experiment a great deal with the camera before other obligations take the remainder of the day.  I want to use the tripod, perhaps some or all of the lenses, and most especially the fantastic optical zoom this camera offers.

Much like I felt after migrating the blog to a new platform, this new camera has already invigorated my photographic tendencies.

As the S50 became more cantankerous, my desire to use it slowly diminished.  It’s not that I didn’t want to take pictures and it’s not that the camera is useless; it’s that I found the vast majority of the images to be completely unusable.  That in turn engendered a malaise when it came to snapping pictures.

Now, however, I’m excited about taking photos again, excited about the possibilities this new contraption offers.

So I can’t wait for tomorrow’s walk. . .