Is spring beautiful?
I’m sure you have heard songs about the pretty spring time, poems about how lovely the spring is, and not to mention all the movies where everything gets better when spring comes.
Well, I don’t agree. We have just come into the season I like the least, there is nothing beautiful with how the surroundings looks like at the moment. I’ll show you what I mean:
And it was even more depressing in town
I can’t see anything beautiful, just something wet, cold and depressing. Although there are some people who are very optimistic about the future !!
Anyway, it will be slightly better in April & May, but it’s not going to get nice until middle of June. Ahh, well, you can’t love every season !
The death of a sofa
I first noticed this sofa in July last year. I “found it” right beside the road, close to a power station, while it wasn’t in mint condition it certainly didn’t look too bad. I could easily see this in a first apartment for someone (unless a cat have peed on it). But I can’t really understand why someone just dumped it here instead of taking it to the recycling station … people!!
In October it was still there but now it started look a bit … sad. Melting snow doesn’t really improve the state of furniture left outside like this.
Today, I passed it once more and now it’s not a sofa anymore. My guess to what happened is that when it started to snow for real in January it was covered in snow, then they needed to remove the snow on the parking lot, and they used a tractor to do that. And this is the result.
Testing my new camera
OK, OK !! I admit, I have bought a new camera! The meaning of “new” is that it’s new to me, it’s a second hand camera that I bought from MPB (great shop if you’re looking for used gear). It’s an 8-year-old model, the LUMIX GM1, a micro four thirds camera that was announced in 2013.
You might wonder why I would buy such an old camera. I think this photo explains it.
Yep, this is the smallest micro four thirds camera I know of. What you see on the photo is a 16 megapixel camera with a 12-32 mm zoom (24-64 mm full frame equivalent). I assume I don’t have to tell you that it fits in any standard pocket with room to spare. This is going to be my daily carry for the foreseeable future, it will not be my main camera, but it will be the camera that’s always with me.
So, to the most important question: is an 8-year-old, entry-level micro four thirds camera any good? Well, yesterday I took a walk and tried it out. And as you can see from these images, it’s perfectly acceptable for what I intend to use it for.
2021-04-05 11:10:58
We have a discussion in the family which cat is the best one, the one who brings in a surprising amount of moss from the roof + pokes her nose everywhere she shouldn’t be, or the one who brings in mice, kill them and then eat them
