Potpourri for Twenty-Three

My Diary: January 1, 2023

Cheesy title, I know.

But so is this photo, and we’ve had fun with it. That piece of a tree trunk Mike is hanging onto used to appear in many of my photos and looked like either a shark or a whale. Or a walrus.

The beachscape has drastically evolved over the past month. Here it was on November 29.

I’ve been practicing with my new camera.

I feel that I don’t like it, but I remember feeling that way at first about my old Canon Rebel. And I have used that one for the last ten years! I don’t like new phones either, but that doesn’t stop me from learning and getting used to a new one.

For years I have dumped all my pictures into folders on my computer.

I use one or two photos from a shoot and then store hundreds and hundreds without ever looking at them again. After a time, I had to move all the photos from my hard drive to an external drive to free up some space.

Since we moved to Roatan, I have taken more pictures than ever, so I’ve uploaded them into daily named folders. I’m doing the same old thing. Saving tons of photos that I’ll probably never look at again. Crazy.

So my new idea is to upload photos from my camera straight to a Google photo album. From there, I sort through all of them to pick (one) “best photo” from every shoot. Sigh. This morning I took 200 pictures. I can’t tell you how much fun I had picking one or two, or even four!

So here is a good Twenty Twenty Three goal:

Learn to take good pictures with my new camera, selecting one or two of the best shots to store in my Google album called (what else?) “Cathy’s Better Shots.” If you want access to it, send me your Gmail address, and I’ll include you. Depending on when you log on, you could see a slew of pictures waiting to be sorted or just the picks of the day.

Here is the first sunrise of this New Year:

The beach is ever-changing, especially with the wind and rain.

We’ve seen this old stump wash in all up and down the beach for months. When it surfaced today, I tried to focus through the crack (likely made by a saw) while preserving detail in the wood. I’ll continue to work on this one, and I’ll call it Mr. Stumpy. Just for reference, of course.

After the past couple of weeks’ stormy weather and the Sea behaving like this . . . .

. . . . it was extra special today for it to regain that calm nature we love to soak in:

Happy New Year, Dear Readers! Thank you for following along on our journey.