This Was My Winter Wonderland (And Camera)

Christmas Day at Lough Talt, lake frozen for the first time in “many a year”

FOR THE past three years I reckon I’ve told myself I’d get out, get some more photos, actually start pushing them out online as well.

On holiday in October I picked myself up a Canon IXUS 120IS and it’s gone a long way to re-invigorate the hobby photographer in me. I’m still using the D70 for commercial work but having the small one in the pocket made such a difference over the Christmas and has left me with a great stack of photos to sift through and upload in the next day or two.

Though not jinxing things for myself, it might be high time turned some attention on my neglected photoblog.

These (above and below) are from my winter wonderland, or Lough Talt, Co. Sligo, where I’d made the longer-than-usual-thanks-to-the-weather drive to be with the family for Christmas.

When I’d first picked up the D70, I was genuinely amazed and impressed by the technology within the camera. Flash forward a few years and skip over to the Canon compact and I’ve been left incredibly impressed all over again. In the whole of Christmas, and the two months or so that I’ve had the camera, I don’t think I’ve taken it off the automatic setting – the camera literally doing all the work for you and producing a fantastic quality image at the same time. Don’t get me wrong, I’m as happy behind a full SLR in crafting a photograph as I am in whipping a compact out of my jacket to catch a snap there-and-then but there’s a lot to be said for the marriage of technology, quality and convenience in this case.

Whether it’s enough to egg me towards revisiting my photoblogging, we’ll have to see. It could be fun though…

Christmas Eve at Lough Talt, Co. Sligo