The Meandering Pen

Back from Sint Maarten

2007-05-18T21:32:00.000-04:00

Well we made it back in one piece from the Caribbean but this is not destined to be one of my favorite trips. First I forgot to pack my battery charger and so I had to buy batteries for the cameras. Then the resort we booked was built on the side of a mountain, real easy to walk down to the beach but a exhausting walk back to the room. The wifi would not work in the room that left the pool area to do photo editing and posting. It was so bright there I could not see the screen well enough to do anything. What the heck we went there for the good weather. I'll get something posted soon.

Off to the carribean again

2007-05-04T18:01:00.000-04:00

Well I'm back for a short while. We will be leaving tomorrow for Sint Maarten.
It's not nearly soon enough for me. I'll send a link to some pictures when they
get posted.

Ta Ta
Pen Master

Hard to get started again

2005-09-20T17:42:00.000-04:00

After getting back from Hawaii I found out I had diabetes and have been studying all about that. I have been having trouble keeping my blood glucose down. I am thinking about changing the focus of the blog. But am not really sure I don't like diabetes and I do like photography travel and pets. But it looks like I'm going to have to deal with this diabetes for the long haul and I might find a way to use the blog as a learning or even a teaching tool.

I'm Back
Pen Master

Just have to Blog something

2005-05-12T20:23:00.000-04:00

I have been so busy getting ready to go to Hawaii that I havn't posted anything for quite some time now, well anything but pictures. I need to do this! I'm losing the ability to write because for a very long time now I haven't written anything but checks and brief, very, log entries, very dry and very brief. Not the kind of writing I used to enjoy back in the way back. So here we go, for starters we got a new ultra zoom camera for the trip 10X optical and 3X digital zoom and we have made a good start at learning how to use the new Kodak DX7590. I have been using the Canon A-20 for several years now and it is a good camera for portraits, indoors and close up picture taking but we went to Aruba two years ago and while we were there we saw an incredible number of different bird species in desert settings. I took quite a few pictures, using the shotgun aproach the canon A-20 did not make it easy to review pictures on the camera. When we got back home I had about a thousand pictures way too many desert scenes and no birds to be seen anywhere. On the bright side that should be a good excuse to go back again. Anyway I've been taking some distance pictures of birds and such with the new camera and I think we are going to be very happy with it. In addition to the ultra zoom the camera has a large bright display makes it very easy to read all the settings with just the push of a button. The DX7590 also takes video clips which will be nice for the beach. Well gotta go figure out how to insert a link in this thing, it dawns on me that I might not be able to put text links in with blogger I was just getting to like it.

ICONS

2005-05-11T21:22:00.000-04:00

2005-05-04T13:03:00.000-04:00

Leaving Paradise

2005-05-04T11:14:00.000-04:00

new camera

2005-05-01T20:07:00.000-04:00

Full Digital Zoom

2005-05-01T20:06:00.000-04:00

Full Optical zoom

2005-05-01T20:04:00.000-04:00

First Picture No Zoom!

2005-04-30T01:31:00.000-04:00

Christmas Dog

2005-04-30T01:22:00.000-04:00

Poppyclaus

2005-04-30T01:15:00.000-04:00

Fighting Like Cats & Dogs

2005-04-30T01:12:00.000-04:00

Annie & Baby Merrily

2005-04-30T01:06:00.000-04:00

Little Annie Fannie

2005-04-29T13:48:00.000-04:00

Poppy The Snowman

2005-04-29T12:13:00.000-04:00

Butterfly Ranch Aruba

2005-04-29T12:12:00.000-04:00

Aruba North Beach

First Real Post

2005-04-27T02:00:00.000-04:00

Another late night post! Just can't seem to find time for anything lately but I promised to write a little every day. Nice weather today summer is definetly on the way. I need to get a new camera so I can get used to it before we go to Hawaii, thinking about the Canon AI IS but still considering a bunch of other ultra (10+) zoom cameras. My current camera only has 3X optical zoom and on our last trip I couldn't get any good shots of the birds so I'm looking for something that will really get me up close.

2005-04-27T01:48:00.000-04:00

The Good Old Days

The Meandering Pen

2005-04-26T00:54:00.000-04:00

The Meandering Pen

OK no html necessary just type and post. I worked on trying to get a picture to stick on this blog but didn't have much luck with picasa or
hello which ever is the name of the picture program. I'll try again tomorrow.
Pen Master

The Meandering Pen

2005-04-24T21:20:00.000-04:00

The Meandering Pen
Is this going to be my first post? I'm not sure if I have to use html
or not so I'll keep it short.