A Box of Chocolates

I left home this morning at around 9am.  It's the first day of Spring and I wanted to learn to use the Digital SLR camera that Adrian bought me 2 Christmas's ago.  I know, ......I know, I should have used it by now and I have, well I've tried to anyway, I just don't know how to use it and then I feel silly cause I don't know what to do.  So I have decided since looking at all the incredible photos that I see every day in blogs, that I just have to bite the bullet and learn how to do this.  So off I went to the Japanese Gardens near the University of Southern Queensland, which is only a 5 minute drive from my house.  It really is the most lovely garden.  I got down on the ground, I twiddled with the P dial and the Av dial and the TV dial and every other little knob, dial and movable part of my camera, which by the way is a Pentax K100.  My point and shoot is also a Pentax, which I never realised until I went to upload the pics to the computer and found I could use the same cord.  Talk about dumb...oh well I know now.  I am rather pleased with my pics and I have only put a few on my photostream with Flikr as I haven't used that before either.  But I must say it was fun and I spent a good 3 hours roaming round local parks and probably looking a little suspicious to some of the mums who were in the parks where I was taking pics of the slides, swing etc.  Oh well...

So tomorrow I am off to Highfields, a little hamlet on the outskirts of Toowoomba probably a 15 min drive, yeah I know how tiny is this town, well population is approx 100,000 so it isn't huge, but it's not too tiny.  I'm going with my two besties Chris & Vicki to the Chocolate Shoppe, honestly the best food and handmade chocs, so hopefully more pics to share.