Hi. So it looks like my blog is going to have to take a break while I figure out all of this obnoxious computer stuff. Any advice on how to deal with not having enough memory space to transfer photos from my camera to my computer would be much appreciated (in the comment section).

~anna

Andy last Fall - Woodstock, VT

More from Relay for Life.

Photos from the new camera should start appearing within the next few days.

Yay!

Mt. Peg sign covered in ice from a storm a few winters ago - Woodstock, Vermont

Fantastic, incredible, awesome, exciting news: I GOT A NEW CAMERA FOR MY BIRTHDAY!!! Thank you parents SO MUCH! I.Am. Ecstatic!I've been hoping and waiting for a new camera for SUCH a long time! The camera is a Nikon d5000 and it takes absolutely incredible photographs. I now have much more freedom in terms of the photos I take. Of course, it will take me months to fully figure out all of the camera's controls so most of my photos will be in "auto" or "scene" modes for quite a while but the quality will be SO much better than that of my point-and-shoot Olympus camera. Also, my computer is running very low on disk space so I'm anticipating quite a lot of trouble downloading the Nikon software; this means that the photos I post will probably continue to be old ones for a while until I get everything figured out. Did I mention I'm excited?

Here's the camera if you want to check it out: http://imaging.nikon.com/products/imaging/lineup/digitalcamera/slr/d5000/index.htm

I took this photo in '07 at my old house in Pomfret. My computer, in its infinite dumbness, is refusing to let me go online so I'm using my mom's laptop for the time being. Unfortunately this means that I can only use very old photos because all of my most recent photos are on my computer.

Sunset on Mt. Peg - Woodstock, VT

A balloon at Relay for Life - Woodstock, VT

Winter in Vermont.

Happy Buddha. Taken in "super macro" mode. Buddha was purchased at Pearl River, a very cool store in SOHO, NYC. http://www.pearlriver.com/v2/index.html

This is a photo I took of my eye a while ago. It was presumably taken in "super macro" mode and it's manipulated but I honestly cannot remember what changes I made to it other than decreasing contrast and brightening it.

Walking in town - Woodstock, VT

Ahhh! I forgot to post a photo yesterday! Sorry, hopefully I won't do it again!

Bzzzzzzzz

Bubbles - Woodstock, VT

An ox at the Tunbridge World's Fair this year - Tunbridge, Vermont (Woah sorry, really late post today!)

A gigantic oak tree in Royalton, Vermont.

I've been trying to get all the photos from the Adirondacks, Fishers Island, and Montreal uploaded but my computer has decided not to function properly at this moment. It's capable of uploading one photo at a time but any more than that, it decidedly cannot handle. And because misery loves company my camera has also chosen this opportunity to break, probably beyond repair (not that it's really worth saving, your cellphone probably takes better pictures). I'll keep the blog going but unfortunately no new photos for a while, just ones that were taken up until my camera died a few days ago.

Self-portrait. Alterations: converting to black and white and increasing contrast.

Vermont du Jour is taking another break (sorry!) for the weekend because I'll be in Montreal. Au revoir!

A yummy pie I made a little while ago. Shot in "cuisine" and "macro" mode.

The infamous dog.

I'm back and so are the photos! I took A LOT of photos in the Adirondacks and at Fishers Island so I'll post those on separate pages soon. I took this photo of the extensive corn fields at Billings Farm a couple of nights ago.