Is anyone else finding this winter way colder than usual? It's ... interesting. Trying to keep busy, I'm -- at last! -- unpacking the photos I took a couple of months ago (with the Lumix; this predates the Canon by months), and this little photo essay, I'll call "Wine Country Autumn." Poem and images are dated March 9, and this is July 3. Where did time go?!
Wine Country Autumn
Gold lies strewn to the horizon and beyond
As if some careless godling
Turned out the divine pockets and
Let the doubloons tumble where they may.
Fields of gold burn, lustrous in the westering sun
As evening settles ― but not for long.
In just a week or three, the next rapacious wind
Will gambol among these vines and loot the hoard
Till bare wood alone remains,
Enduring winter’s ire with never a hint
Of the transient splendour that was
These fields of gold.
...Dave and I were at Myponga the other day, and I field tested the 18-45mm lens on the new Canon. Nice. I have the images in Photoshop at this time. Its *not* that the photos look much (if any) better, just as they come out of the camera, than the shots I was getting from the Lumix, BUT -- when you come to enhance them, you find there is a zillion times more information in the Canon image than there would have been in the same picture off the FZ-80 Superzoom bridge. This means the image can be "driven" far, far further, and at the end of the process, the picture will have the characteristics you expect from a professional camera. Mmmm. It's all about a synergy between the camera and the software, and both elements have to be in place, to get the results. I Have a lot still to learn, but I'm getting there!
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