(Winter is coming) picspam :)

[moia]

Someone else's:
Gorgeous photographs of Cerkniško jezero, which is a 'famous' Slovenian intermittent lake, were on the main rtv page today and I just thought to point them out here because I quite liked them :)

Mine:

Comments

[sulky_rhino]

Ooh, gorgeous pictures! :o

Btw, what kind of camera do you use? :)

[moia]

Thank you :D

A small and handy Canon Ixus 950 is :) It's great in everything except for the 'presvetljen' effect that happens a bit too often :/

It snowed today :)

[sulky_rhino]

Ooh, okay. I thought you had one of those HUGE professional cameras. :D It's good to know I should be able to take great photos with my camera, hehe. :)

Presvetljen - what do you mean? Is it the flash, or something else?

[moia]

I don't have a professional camera, no. I want one :P But the truth is, I have my trusty old Canon eos500n, which is analogue and while it's far from perfect it does make okay photos but I barely use it. I'm too lazy to carry it around and to have the films developed in a reasonable timeframe etc. So even if I had a professional camera I wonder how much use it would really get. Because the ixus you can shove into your pocket and it's hardly a burden and that's why it gets a lot of use :)
I don't think there's anything wrong with your photos!
Do you use any editing software? You should always edit your digital photos at least a bit - I've started using picasa lately for that and I quite like it (it's free :)). If you haven't been doing at least a bit of levels correction etc. you might try and see how that works for you. Even digital photos taken with professional cameras need tweaking

[chascobal]

Hi! I'm Cristóbal, and I'm a 21-year-old Chilean guy who is living right now in the States. I came across your journal through a random search, and you seem pretty interesting (btw lovely pictures).

Do you mind if I add you?

See ya!

[moia]

Well thanks, I'm glad you like the pictures :).

I don't mind if you add me at all, but I do not know you yet so I won't friend you back right away (please don't take that personally, I don't like to defriend so I usually friend journals I've been reading for quite some time...).

From what I heard/saw of Chile it seems a pretty amazing place. What's Santiago like?

[chascobal]

It's pretty much the average metropolis, but I love it there (even though as any big metropolis, there are some flaws like public transportation -still, it's better than for example in the States-, or the constant pick-pocketers in downtown... but if you take the right cautions, you'll be doing OK). The countryside, the mountains, and the beach is one-hour drive from the city, there are tons of places to walk and sight-see, and the weather is great (humid and not-so-cold winters, and warm and dry summers).

No problem at all. Feel free to comment or ask me about anything that may seem strange in my journal.

[moia]

Thanks for the description of your hometown. I'd love to go to South America some day and Chile seems very interesting with the sea and deserts and ice. But I have no idea when I might be able to go since this is in fact the first year in quite a while that I haven't been able to afford travelling more than for daytrips and my first plan for the next time I'll have extra money is Japan :)

Why did you go to study to USA since it feels from your posts as though you dislike what you're studying there (if I'm reading your posts correctly) - did you really want to study your subjects and found them boring afterwards?