This week I have had my Canon S90 compact camera for six months and every time I pick it up I am never disappointed. Unfortunately in six months I have also dropped it twice so it now has some dents and scratches.
So in six months I have taken 3692 photos and that equates to roughly 20 pictures a day which doesn’t sound a lot until you take into account my other camera that has clocked up another 4135 photos in that period so about 43 pictures a day.
The size of the camera is perfect to carry around with me on nearly every occassion and this has meant that can keep some variety in the photos I have taken as part of my Photo2010 project www.scouller.biz
I am impressed with the quality of the pictures, they are always clear and sharp except where I get it wrong 
So this is my favourite photo from 2009
Today was about finishing my presentation on social networking for the premium support team at work tomorrow. All was going well until I needed to depict tagging and dogears. So after having a quick look around on the web and not finding a royalty-free / free image of either I decided the only option was to take my own photos. I then had to make a decision quick and easy or thoughtful and professional. As time was against me it was going to be quick and dirty to get some images I wanted.
The first one was a simple request of a pick of a dogear, this is basically when someone folds the corner of a page in a book over, so first I grabbed an appropriate book in the shape of Wikinomics. Book set and it did pained me to dogear the book but these things need to be done. After a short time this was the image a I used, it was dark and moody due to no flash…
dogear
The second image was the need for a depiction of tagging so out came the post it notes and pens and off I went to produce some very simple tags, this was the outcome..
tagging
Let’s hope the presentation as a whole works, and I am loving using Keynote in anger for the first time..
So on Saturday got my camera out, the first time for about two months to take a few snaps of the little boy and his reaction to the Xmas tree, now that these have been taken I must get round to downloading them to my mac to have a play to see if any are up to the job. Its been so long since I have used my camera in anger that I have decided that over the Xmas period I will try and take at least 10 photo’s a day on general stuff to get my eye back in. I will also start looking at more abstract subjects so that I can start to build a stock photo library for my presentations.
Why the stock library? Well that has come about when I was looking for some photos for a presentation and found it very difficult to find free one, although there are lots of sites that do have free photos some times they just don’t have the style of images I want. As you can expect all the really good shots cost money which is fair enough. So decided that how about tackling some of my need by taking my own photos.
We will need to wait and see how I get on, I also must sort out my current photo libraries as they are in the usual chaotic mess, I feel the need for another clear down and reorganise so I can find the photos I want.
Leopard taken in Kenya
