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Thursday, May 18, 2006
Take only photographs, leave only footsteps
I ventured out to Lettuce Lake Park where I usually run to try my hand at some nature photography. It was a very nice day out but unfortunately I didn't come across the box turtle or the snake that I encountered a few days ago. Also, the fantastic observation tower was closed for renovation. Lettuce Lake, a Hillsborough County park, is one of the greenest places I've seen and gives the illusion that you're not in Tampa (a feeling I treasure dearly).
My new Canon Powershot A700 is quite the piece of equipment. The photos below were taken at the higest resolution and compression rate but I have resized them for easy blog viewing. I was very impressed at all the settings, most of which I have yet to use. The 6x optical zoom is great as well and the feature I'm probably most excited about (it can get up to 24x with digital zoom). With my 1 gigabyte memory card (extra, of course) I can get almost 9,000 photos at the lowest resolution and about 360 at the highest. And to brag a little more, those yellow flowers are about the size of a quarter.
Posted by Will at May 18, 2006 11:55 PM in Personal Reflections