Mother's Day Portrait

I got a new old camera for Mother's Day, my first DSLR, an eBay find for 80% off the MSRP, a magical piece of equipment that was named "Camera of the Year" by the editors of Popular Photography magazine back in 2004.

This is one of the first shots I took, testing it out.

sad reality

from the new yorker article i read today:

The jury is out, but one thing is for sure: film is dwindling into a minority taste, upheld largely by professionals and stubborn, nostalgic perfectionists. Nikon now offers twenty-two digital models, for instance, while the "wide array of SLR film cameras," as promised on its Web site, numbers precisely two.

does improper usage become proper when it's commonplace?

Traditional critics have insisted that nauseous is properly used only to mean "causing nausea" and that it is incorrect to use it to mean "affected with nausea," as in Roller coasters make me nauseous. In this example, nauseated is preferred by 72 percent of the Usage Panel. Curiously, though, 88 percent of the Panelists prefer using nauseating in the sentence The children looked a little green from too many candy apples and nauseating (not nauseous) rides. Since there is a lot of evidence to show that nauseous is widely used to mean "feeling sick," it appears that people use nauseous mainly in the sense in which it is considered incorrect. In its "correct" sense it is being supplanted by nauseating.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=nauseous

umm, that was easy!

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