This afternoon I cleared my calendar and took my kayak over to White Rock Lake to take some pictures. It was so pretty yesterday sailing that I wished I had a real camera. So this time I took Ed’s Lumix, which I could pack in a waterproof bag. It was 72 ° out with no wind, so the only ripples in the water were from me. I took a lot of great pictures of the sailboats with the fall colors in the background, and was particularly excited to get a shot of a golden tree reflected in the water.

And this is why people shouldn’t share cameras.

I got home and downloaded the shots, and saw that they were all terrible. Ed had changed the ISO speed to 400 for Halloween, and hadn’t changed it back. He doesn’t even really know how to use his camera (which I bought for him), and I guess he got tired of me complaining that he always set it to auto after insisting he needed full manual control. Anyway, it’s his camera, so it’s my fault for next checking, and next time I will.

I fixed the golden tree a bit, but I guess need to go back and try again. Hopefully the wind will cooperate.

(p.s. the kayaking was really fun)