I will say that I am going absolutely bananas waiting for the new camera to get here. I even hauled out my old tablet and started to add text to Sid pictures to occupy myself while I patiently wait.
{ETA: In looking back at this post, and Sid being the main picture, it could wrongly be concluded that he died (lost an old buddy). He has not, he is still causing doggie terror where ever he roams.}
But I had my Rebel XS for 4 years. It went literally everywhere with me. It took the road trip to Texas with Steve and I, both times that we did it. It went to the Virgin Islands, Punta Cana, Canada. It spent many nights with Rooney and I, photographing every aspect of his tiny-old-man-dog features. It took so many pictures of Steve, every angle of him, when we first started dating. It held all of those images so that when we were going through the long distance parts of our relationship, I could flip through my camera and see images of how the light fell across his face on the patio while he was smoking his morning cigarette and fall into those memories so that he did not feel like he was 1000 miles away.
My parents bought it for me one quarter while I was at Ohio State when I had decided to change my minor in photography to my major (in my mind, not on paper of course) and took an entire quarter of art classes, which really pissed them off. But as always in their strange way of seemingly hating every decision I make, but supporting me no matter what, they bought me this amazing camera. It was way over my head (I was a film girl up to this point) but I loved it. It wasn’t often that I ventured off of the automatic settings at first but over the years I learned to shoot in a fully manual mode as well as to manually focus at the same time. That camera taught me so much, it helped me to see the world, and it helped me to translate my creative energy into something I actually loved to do. There is nothing like taking a picture of someone the way that you see them, and then giving them that picture.
But alas, I have out grown a lot of what the XS could and sold the XS body in order to fund the purchase of a new camera body. I am so excited to get the new body (on Friday!!) but I will miss my old travel buddy.
