Self-portrait

For the past couple of weeks, I've kept work's fancy camera on my desk in an effort to snap pictures of all 70+ of our affiliated faculty, students, and researchers. Or perhaps rather, the 30 or so who are around, or who aren't so easy to find on the web.

This camera is my arch-nemesis. I have worked here for nearly two years, and I have REFUSED to take photos of any sort, because the camera and I do not have any sort of understanding for each other. And the pictures I usually take are a disaster. A blurry, messy, poorly framed disaster.

But this week, on the roof of my building, the camera and I finally came to an understanding. And it agreed that, most of the time, it would take very lovely pictures for me. The camera is a Sony, so I'm convinced it got wind of what happened to the last Sony product I owned, and finally wised up and decided to play nice. Most of the time. But when it does play nice, the pictures are so lovely, in fact, that they require NO EDITING WHATSOEVER. No color balance, no contrast issues, none of that nonsense. I think this is the first time I've ever put a FULLY UN-EDITED photo of myself on the Interwebs.