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Sayonara days of limited quality and control!  A new adventure begins. Check out a review of this camera on  DPreview.com When I first got into photography it was a SLR Pentax that my dad got me for my birthday. I was pretty young, I don't recall the age I was, but it was pretty cool. Later I got to use the family's Sony Mavica on some vacation, I don't recall the details but digital cameras were cool. In the early years of the new millennium I got a Sony Mavica CD1000 which used mini CDs as the medium to record to. It has an amazing zoom! And a whopping (at the time) 5 mega pixels!

Why and how we react to the Earthly events that we cannot control. By Alex Stratis 03/17/2011 image used from HTE When earthquake, flood, fire, etc., occur in an area that is not inhabited by humans, it does not generally get any notice by the media, and therefore is not really a disaster. What I am saying is that disaster is relative to what it affects. Imagine now, if you will, a Japan/Hati/NZ-like island, void of any people. The best way to do this is to go back in time before humans existed. Why do this? Well, for perspective, what was the coast of Japan like back then? For thousands of years landscapes were formed by volcanoes and earthquakes. Why is this relative?

Exploring the Moss This post is an attempt to draw a picture, through words, of my perspective on photography and specifically  it's meant to give a friend, who recently asked me for some advice on getting into photography. I am no expert, in fact my cameras are way below par (as of the date I post this). But I have a serious passion for capturing what I see, vision is a wonderful gift and sharing that gift with others can be a lot of fun.