After months of researching, shopping and drooling, I finally took the first step toward my inevitable artistic career and bought myself a nice new digital SLR camera. I wanted more control on my pictures than my respectable Canon SD750 could offer and decided I wanted (read: needed) a great camera.

I managed to get a deal off the cheapest DSLR available at Futureshop, where only the demo was left available. At 474$ with a special lens (they didn’t include the cupcake lens but a 14-42mm one) and a 4gb high-speed CF card, it was a steal, especially since it was in mint condition.

It took me some time to get used to the newly-found total control the gadget offered, but the results (after a few blurry mishaps) were absolutely astounding as long as I had the focus right. In this picture, the camera grabbed so much details you can see our cars and our neighbors’ house reflected in Paco’s eyes.

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A food fight broke out at school today. It was both funny and terrifying and we didn’t take part (with much remorse). I also snapped this picture while walking home. There are many, many more birds that couldn’t even fit in the picture. That’s pretty scary when those poop machines are flying above your head.

Not pictured above: the chaos five minutes earlier.

If they all shat at once...

As I looked at the beautiful landscape there is behind my house, an idea came to me. When I walk alone, my music blasting through my earphones, I get splendid views no one else dares to appreciate. For example, when I’m walking to school every morning, the sun is glowing through those plants on the roadside and a golden halo draws itself around them.

These pictures, words alone could not describe them. I decided instead to snap a photograph everyday starting from today. Here’s two photos of the sky in my backyard being set ablaze by the sun in its last hours. The view was absolutely astounding and my digital camera was sadly unable to properly capture it.

This is what I get everyday

The sky is on fire

I love graphs. They put all you want to know in a colorful picture you can easily decode. Another thing I love is to see what kind of people read my blog (so I can sell the results to greedy businessmen). I combined the two and made a little graph showing what people search to find my blog. Impressively, these were the 3 most popular search terms once you group similar results (like “bobcat” and “bobcat wikipedia”).