Photography is harder than it looks...
Recently I finally made the purchase of a nicer camera with more widgets and knobs to play with. I had been thinking about it for quite some time, and as I was trying to take photos on the hike realized that it might have finally been time to take the next step with photography.
What I had forgotten is that taking really nice pictures can be hard at times. The more of the photo that you control, the more there is for you to forget to adjust... So, it's been a crash course in f-stops, shutter speeds, zoom, camera shake (bad!), etc. trying to bring back the things I had learned in photography classes in high school. Fortunately, I realized that with a digital camera you can just take the same shot 5 or 6 times in a row until the settings are closer to what you want; there's no need to worry about wasted film.
All of this just reminds me how good people, like Jude, who really know what they're doing are.
Oh, and you can find some of the pictures I've been taking while fiddling with the camera and walking around lake union here. Right now (9/22/05;~8am) there's just one picture (one from our walk over to the boats afloat show) online because community server is a pain to upload photos on, but i'll be adding some of the better ones over the next few days...