{"id":2703,"date":"2013-09-04T12:33:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T19:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2013-09-04T12:33:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T19:33:49","slug":"upgrading-always","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=2703","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading…always."},"content":{"rendered":"
\"First<\/a>
First picture with my wireless remote!<\/a>, a photo by Random and Odd<\/a> on Flickr.<\/span><\/div>\n

I joined an online photography group. Knowing myself I figured I would add them, find some cool, secret location shots and then put them on \u2018hide from newsfeed\u2019 and forget I was even on the group in the first place.
\nWhat I didn\u2019t expect was to become friends with these people and for them to teach me so much. I know photography, but these guys have so much knowledge about things I didn\u2019t even think was important\u2026or that it was even an aspect to photography.
\nNow I am excited when I see a new post and I get involved in the conversation and instead of being worried about feeling stupid, I just jump in and ask questions.
\nThis has now added to the addiction of my art. Someone posts a question, I go and research it and find, \u201cOh hey, yeah\u2026I need one of these!\u201d 3 out of 10 times I am figuring out in my head how much I can afford to spend and then finding a way to pull it off and then saying, \u201cI can\u2019t afford it, but I am going to buy it anyway!\u201d I figure it this way; I am not spending money on smokes anymore and I would say that is about 35 bucks a week I am saving. I haven\u2019t bought smokes in 2 months and I have only bought 3 things totaling out to 80 bucks. If I do the math right (and I did because I had to use a calculator) it looks like I should have 200 bucks left in my \u2018SPLURGE BECAUSE YOU DON\u2019T SMOKE!\u201d fund. Sadly I do not have 200 bucks sitting around. How is it that I don\u2019t? TEENAGE DAUGHTERS THAT DRIVE and Dutch Brothers is why I don\u2019t have money. It\u2019s also the reason that Alyx doesn\u2019t have money and the reason she will be getting a job at the Dutch Brothers in Rocklin soon!<\/p>\n

Last night my wireless shutter showed up. My extra batteries came last week. My secondary grip and LED light source was the week before that.
\nI\u2019d like to say that I don\u2019t think there is anymore that I could add to my arsenal of photography crap, but I don\u2019t want to jinx myself. Today a guy posted a 3 point axis to the page and I was so grateful that I don\u2019t shoot video or I am sure I would have been searching Amazon.
\nI love that we all have our different things we are into, it makes for interesting reading and entertainment. I love all the guys that like to do the Milky Way shots out at the lake and they seem like a group I would fit in with, except for the fact that I would die of boredom out there because that\u2019s not my thing. <\/p>\n

So this is the first picture with the wireless remote. I let Dan borrow my tripod so I had to use that cheap one you use on your P&S cameras and it didn\u2019t hold up the 12 lb Nikon. It didn\u2019t work. I wouldn\u2019t advise trying it\u2026especially if you have a 400.00 lens on your camera at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First picture with my wireless remote!, a photo by Random and Odd on Flickr. I joined an online photography group. Knowing myself I figured I would add them, find some cool, secret location shots and then put them on \u2018hide from newsfeed\u2019 and forget I was even on the group in the first place. What I didn\u2019t expect was to become friends with these people and for them to teach me so much. I know photography, but these guys have so much knowledge about things I didn\u2019t even think was important\u2026or that it was even an aspect to photography. Now I am excited when I see a new post and I get involved in the conversation and instead of being worried about feeling stupid, I just jump in and ask questions. This has now added to the addiction of my art. Someone posts a question, I go and research it and find, \u201cOh hey, yeah\u2026I need one of these!\u201d 3 out of 10 times I am figuring out in my head how much I can afford to spend and then finding a way to pull it off and then saying, \u201cI can\u2019t afford it, but I am going to buy it anyway!\u201d I figure it this way; I am not spending money on smokes anymore and I would say that is about 35 bucks a week I am saving. I haven\u2019t bought smokes in 2 months and I have only bought 3 things totaling out to 80 bucks. If I do the math right (and I did because I had to use a calculator) it looks like I should have 200 bucks left in my \u2018SPLURGE BECAUSE YOU DON\u2019T SMOKE!\u201d fund. Sadly I do not have 200 bucks sitting around. How is it that I don\u2019t? TEENAGE DAUGHTERS THAT DRIVE and Dutch Brothers is why I don\u2019t have money. It\u2019s also the reason that Alyx doesn\u2019t have money and the reason she will be getting a job at the Dutch Brothers in Rocklin soon! Last night my wireless shutter showed up. My extra batteries came last week. My secondary grip and LED light source was the week before that. I\u2019d like to say that I don\u2019t think there is anymore that I could add to my arsenal of photography crap, but I don\u2019t want to jinx myself. Today a guy posted a 3 point axis to the page and I was so grateful that I don\u2019t shoot video or I am sure I would have been searching Amazon. I love that we all have our different things we are into, it makes for interesting reading and entertainment. I love all the guys that like to do the Milky Way shots out at the lake and they seem like a group I would fit in with, except for the fact that I would die of boredom out there because that\u2019s not my thing. So this is the first picture with the wireless remote. I let Dan borrow my tripod so I had to use that cheap one you use on your P&S cameras and it didn\u2019t hold up the 12 lb Nikon. It didn\u2019t work. I wouldn\u2019t advise trying it\u2026especially if you have a 400.00 lens on your camera at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}