gypsyqueen

Iv always enjoyed poetry its like art in words. Its beautiful one of my favourite poets was ee cummings. I hadnt actually known about him at all until afew months ago watching a really touching movie called Charlie St Cloud they used a line of the poem that really stayed with me id like to read the book aswell will get around to it soon enough.  The poem is about taking chances and trusting your heart. I strongly believe the poem is both motivational and inspiring. I think that plays a big role in ones life trusting your instincts and doing what you feel is right in your heart and not giving up on your dreams. Having a vision of where your life is going...Really looking forward to the photoshoots with Bernice next week shes great at what she does photography is such an amazing medium its instant gratification my heart yearns for some cameras to experiment with film is really expensive but the result is so amazing although digital cameras are more advanced and you can see the result of what youve taken its kind of an exitement too developing a film and seeing the end result. a friend of mine who works with me whos studying photography recommended i go check out the camera store by the old biscuit mill in woodstock apparently they sell the diane f + which im also pretty keen on:D
Really keen to experiment with an slr camera (digital single reflex camera)
some backround information compliments of wikipedia:P
History

Kodak DCS 100, based on a Nikon F3 body with Digital Storage Unit, released in May 1991.

Nikon NASA F4 back view with Electronics Box, launched on STS-48 September 1991.

In 1969 Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith invented the first successful imaging technology using a digital sensor, a CCD (Charge-Coupled Device). CCD would allow the rapid development of digital photography. For their contribution to digital photography Boyle and Smith were granted the Nobel Prize in Physics 2009.^[27]
In 1975 Kodak engineer Steven Sasson invented the first digital still camera, which used a Fairchild 100 x 100 pixel CCD.^[28][29]
On August 25, 1981 Sony unveiled a prototype of the Sony Mavica. This camera was an analog electronic camera that featured interchangeable lenses and a SLR viewfinder.
At Photokina in 1986, Nikon revealed a prototype analog electronic still SLR camera, the Nikon SVC, a precursor to the digital SLR.^[30] The prototype body shared many features with the N8008.^[30] The follower Nikon QV-1000C Still Video Camera was produced since 1988 mainly for professional press use.^[31] Both cameras used QV mount lenses, a variant of F-mount lenses. Via an adapter (QM-100) other Nikon F-mount lenses can be fitted.
In 1991, Kodak released the first commercially available fully digital SLR, the Kodak DCS-100, previously shown at Photokina in 1990.^[32] It consisted of a modified Nikon F3 SLR body, modified drive unit, and an external storage unit connected via cable. The 1.3 megapixel camera cost approximately US$30,000. This was followed by the Kodak DCS-200 with integrated storage and other Kodak DCS cameras.^[33]
September 1991 NASA launched the Nikon NASA F4 on board the Space Shuttle Discovery, mission STS-48. The camera was based on a modified F4 with standard F-mount and had a digital camera back with a monochrome CCD image sensor with 1024 x 1024 pixels on an area of 15 x 15mm.^[34]
In 1999, Nikon announced the Nikon D1. The D1 shared similar body construction as Nikon's professional 35mm film DSLRs, and the same Nikkor lens mount, allowing the D1 to use Nikon's existing line of AI/AIS manual-focus and AF lenses. Although Nikon and other manufacturers had produced digital SLR cameras for several years prior, the D1 was the first professional digital SLR that displaced Kodak's then-undisputed reign over the professional market.^[35]
Over the next decade, other camera manufacturers entered the DSLR market, including Canon, Kodak, Fujifilm, Minolta (later Konica Minolta, and ultimately acquired by Sony), Pentax, Olympus, Panasonic, Samsung, Sigma, and Sony).
In January 2000, Fujifilm announced the FinePix S1 Pro, the first consumer-level DSLR.
In November 2001, Canon released its 4.1 megapixel EOS-1D, the brand's first professional digital body. In 2003, Canon introduced the 6.3 megapixel EOS 300D SLR camera (known in the United States as the Digital Rebel and in Japan as the Kiss Digital) with an MSRP of US$999, aimed at the consumer market. Its commercial success encouraged other manufacturers to produce competing digital SLRs, lowering entry costs and allowing more amateur photographers to purchase DSLRs.
In 2004 Konica Minolta released Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D, first DSLR with in-body image stabilization^[36] which later on become standard in Pentax, Olympus and Sony Alpha cameras.
In early 2009 Nikon released D90, first DSLR to feature video recording. Since then all major companies offer cameras with this functionality.
Since then the number of megapixels in imaging sensors have increased steadily, with most companies focusing on, high ISO performance, speed of focus, higher frame rates, the elimination of digital 'noise' produced by the imaging sensor, and price reductions to lure new customers.

Technology is advancing at such a rapid rate its kind of scary.

Dive For Dreams

By E.E. Cummings

dive for dreams
or a slogan may topple you
(trees are their roots
and wind is wind)
trust your heart
if the seas catch fire(and live by love
though the stars walk backward)
honour the past
but welcome the future
(and dance your death
away at this wedding)
never mind a world
with its villains or heroes(for god likes girls
and tomorrow and the earth)

[E.E. Cummings,