My Canon Powershot G5

Today was a very special day for me. After months on end of saving, I finally bought a beautiful, fancy camera! For the year that I've been taking photographs, I've been using a kodak easyshare. A very basic camera, which was great for learning, as a beginner, but it's been time for a while now, for me to move on. Now I have a Canon Powershot G5. What a thing of beauty! Of course I don't know how to use it yet, haha, it's got a lot of options! It comes with a thick manual that I will be studying night and day. I am so incredibly exited about this camera!

I started saving some months ago while I was still living in the haunted house with the ex. I had no idea which camera I would eventually buy. I did google searches, and newspaper searches, phonecalls and emails to the various stores around where I live. I picked the brain of another photographer I know, who has a very cool Sony camera. I walked into this store and that one, only to be reminded again and again that I couldn't actually afford the options I really wanted, the camera's on my list were always either too much money, by several hundred dollars, or they were not available at all. I continued to save, I had about $600. Then I made the decision to move. To leave all the dysfunction and traumatic experience behind - so the camera savings went toward a damage deposit, and first months rent on this apartment. It was depressing to empty my piggy bank, but lucky that I had the money.

After I moved into this apartment, I went a bit crazy spending what little money I had on things like sheets and kitchen cannisters. I finally forced myself to stop, and think "did I want a terry cloth shower curtain, or did I want a Real camera?" "was I serious about photography, or was I content to continue with my amateur cam?" After I put things into perspective, it was easy to save. And now I have the camera of my dreams! I have so much to learn though! All about shutter speed and aperature and ISO, all this math and fractions and conditions to take into account! It's intimidating, I admit, but awfully thrilling too. A whole world is open to me now. If I thought I was a photographer before, boy....

I feel that I should say a proper goodbye to my kodak. That brave little camera captured some of the darkest months of my life. I took hundreds upon hundreds of photographs of myself, and things around me, as my relationship with my boyfriend was breathing its last breaths. I can see in my expression, and in some of the poses I captured, what I was going through at the time. Now my trusty kodak is going into retirement. I'm sure I will never use it again. Well I will use it once more ... to take a photograph of my Canon. Then the kodak will go into its case, and be laid to rest in the closet. It did a wonderful job, it more than made back the money I paid. Thankyou, little kodak, I will never forget you.