In a previous post on how I became interested in photography I mentioned that I already had a camera before I met Lene. A crappy little point and shoot. The pictures were a bit soft and the autofocus wasn’t the greatest - but it worked. This was before phones had decent cameras and before I even thought about spending a lot of money on a camera like a DSLR. I needed a digital camera so I bought one.

Before I bought it I tried to do my research. I’m one of those people who overthink some of my purchases. I’ll check reviews, look at alternatives, read up on the subject, and do as much research as I can. This can help me decide exactly which thing I want to buy. This can also push me into completely different products or thingies that I didn’t originally know about or intend to buy. This can also, thankfully, lead me to the point where I don’t decide to buy anything at all. For the moment.

There is a Shoe comic strip I haven’t been able to track down on the Internet. In it Skyler, the nephew of Perfessor Cosmo Fishhawk, asks his uncle what a word processor does. The Perfessor says something like:

You know what a food processor does to food…

Now… word processors are better at handling words then food processors are at handling food. At least when the person using the word processor knows what the deal is.

For more than a decade now I’ve been lucky enough to share my life with Lene Andersen. For those who follow Lene at The Seated View I’m often referred to as “The Boy” in her posts. That’s “The Boy” - two words with a capital “T” and a capital “B”.

If you don’t follow Lene - she’s a writer, an advocate, and a remarkable photographer. I do mean remarkable. She can capture something’s essence in her pictures. She has an eye for the beauty of the natural world and the ability to see things that others don’t. Her pictures can make you feel longing for the holidays or they can simply document the unexplainable oddities she encounters. If she has a signature picture it’s Mystic. A print of which is hanging above my desk.