Subway family

This is what you want from a point & shoot: the confidence that you can just point it and shoot without stroking your chin for ten minutes over white balance and ISO settings, and still get something serviceable at the other end. I'm sure the D90 could have handled the challenging light conditions just as well on auto mode, but then so it should being twice the price and all that - and that's without a lens. So all told I'm pleased with the Ricoh so far - even though I'm still half convinced I should have gone for the RX200. But then I may have just got tied up in the purist photography options it offers and missed this shot altogether.

Shiny shiny

Not much time to seek photographic inspiration today - was on solo parenting duties as I think I mentioned yesterday. It was a good day though - no blood was spilled and the kids are still speaking to me. We clean the car so rarely that I had to choose this shot for the day's entry. I'm not sure it's ever looked this clean and I wouldn't be surprised if it never does again.

One of today's highlights was dragging the kids into Park Cameras for what was supposed to be a ten minute mosey, but which turned into a full-blown camera geek orgy of f numbers, ISO and fast glass talk. They were very patient - for most of the time anyway. And now I know what cameras I lust after. There are two: a Nikon D90 for proper photography and a Ricoh R10 for point 'n' shoot duties. Oh, and a Sigma 30mm f1.4 lens for the Nikon. And maybe an SB600 flash. But that's it. Honestly!