Sunday Morning Walk

The past few weeks have been quite stressful and busy for my school life so today, as the weather is supposed to be good, I decided to head out to the promenade of White Rock along with my camera.

Since Robyn is in New York with one of her best friends, she has my main SDHC memory card. I had to hunt around to see if I had any other memory cards for my Canon XSi. Luckily, I still have my 1 GB SD card that came with my little point and shoot (the camera Robyn is using on her trip). Now typically my 16GB SDHC card can take like 500 photos on my XSi, a 1GB card can take about 50. So I had to be a bit less, shutter happy.

Yesterday, I had to fix my home server. It crashed horribly so I rebuilt it from pieces of another computer. It ended up being a dual-core AMD Athlon64, with 2GB of RAM, 1TB hard drive etc etc. My plans are to re-create a file server to store music and photos. Anyway, since I’ve been hardcore coding and stressing out, I thought I should get away from the computer and do something that always seems to relax me; a photo walk.

Actually, as I was walking along the beach, I heard the familiar call of a Loon. Unfortunately, Loons still seem to evade me and I have yet to get close enough to take a some-what decent photo of one. It’s my next bird to capture with my camera though! I’ll be excited the day I can get close enough to take a decent photo of one.

Of course, I had to try an HDR of the pier. No photowalk for me is complete unless I’ve tried to do a hand-held multiple-exposure HDR.

As I was walking back home, I noticed there was a bald eagle on the beach. This guy wasn’t as friendly as others and flew away before I could get close enough to try and photograph him.

It was an enjoyable little walk. I wish I didn’t have to get back to doing school work. I want to just have 1 day of not doing any school-based things.