Trouble

I've been having a lot of trouble posting lately. I switched to blogger in beta and since have not been able to post from home. I don't know why and I find the "help" links at the blogspot site far too time consuming and useless. Anyway, that's why the last two fantastic posts that I've written have not come up. If this post works, I will bring the other two posts into school with me the next time I come to try to post them here. I'm looking for another blog host and considering the option of starting my own website-I don't know which will be better for me. I'll let you know and post a link to the new blog whenever it becomes a reality.

Convoluted

I’ve been feeling a bit down today. I don’t know why. Does anyone have any ideas? School is going okay. The submarine project is about to take off full speed. I’ve been having a lot of fun taking pictures lately. I’ve had a lot of fun conversations with friends and with Inga. I haven’t been getting into arguments with anyone recently. I just feel a bit depressed. This has been kind of under the surface for some weeks now and it’s starting to annoy me. I have no reason to feel anything but happiness. So what’s wrong?! The human mind is a twisted thing. I just don’t get it.

My Little Camera

Lately I have been having very negative thoughts about my camera. I had been quite satisfied until recently. She works pretty well. She didn't get too broken when I knocked her off the nightstand in England. She has gone with me to lots of different places and allowed me to take a lot of pictures that I feel happy with. However, then I started trying to figure out how to manually adjust the shutter speed. I thought I'd tried everything with no success. That's why I started dreaming of the day when I could afford a much more expensive camera with even more maual control. Today, I figured out that the solution to my problem was not to dream of something I couldn't have but rather to check the camera again to try to find the setting. This is a very basic thing and most digital cameras will allow the user to control shutter speed. I found the setting in the most obvious of places and now I can see that ihave actually a very large range of shutter speeds. I don't know what I was thinking! I love my little camera again and beg her apology.

New Stuff

The photosite that I set up last week has really taken over almost all of my free time. I have also been reading a lot more. I finished The Last Precinct by Patricia Cornwell. She's my favorite murder mystery writer because she writes about a character named Kay Scarpetta who is chief medical examiner for the state of Virginia. The character is a very strong persona that has been well developed. The stories are a lot like the tv series CSI which I also find fascinating. This type of murder mystery happens, for the most part, after the fact. That is, the main characters are forensic scientists who try to deduce from scientific evidence left at the scene what was done, how it was done and who did it. This book kept me engaged until the end by not revealing too much while it allowed quite a bit of speculation as to who and why.
I've just started Clive barker's book Sacrament which is about a wildlife photographer who falls into a coma and is travelling through the landscape of his memories. I've only just begun the real meat of the book so I can't tell you too much about it at the moment. But it is well written and quite engaging-as I've found all of his stories to be.
I recently watched the movie "Everything Is Illuminated". It's fantastic. It's a vicisouly creative and innovative film about a young man searching for the story of his family. It's narrated by a man who speaks English with some hilarious misusage misunderstanding of words. My mother was telling me recently that I should read the book or listen to the book on tape and if someone wants to give it to me for Christmas, I will.
The most important thing right now, though is the explosion of photographic expression that's blossomed in me. I've found that it's wonderfully gratifying to go out with the camera and walk around for hours on end. Of course, this means a certain decrease in the amount of good meals my family will eat, as I am the one who cooks most-according to the agreement I reached with the Dear Wife.
Marine ecology is going well. I've decided on a project for the class. I'm going to study the changes in density and size distribution of brown shrimp (Crangon crangon) on the mud flats in Mossfellsbær and see if those patterns are also observed in Vogar. It should be interesting.