When it comes to the present part of Christmas, I had my Christmas Eve yesterday. You see, ever since I borrowed an SLR camera a while ago I’ve been planning to buy one for myself, and after much research and pro & con-lists with Boyfriend and Cookie, I decided I wanted a Canon EOS 500d. I planned to buy it in January when I’ll have more money, but after a while I started thinking about working out a way to buy it ASAP. This way, I could experiment and learn how to use the camera when I have no school or other things keeping me busy, and I could take lots and lots of Christmas photos.

Yesterday I went with my mother to town to do some errands, and we decided to stop by a place where I could buy the camera. Now, I knew I wanted a tripod and a better lense than the one that comes with the camera, but I’d decided to buy them in January and probably online. But… well, what was I supposed to do when the shop had a rather sturdy tripod I could afford and the exact same lense I’d been drooling over online (which was a Canon 50mm f/1.8, for you nerdy darlings)? So, yeah, my Christmas came a little early, and I’m practically melting with joy every time I see him – yes, my camera is a “him”, and he hasn’t got a name – yet (any suggestions?).

I am determined to fill the blog with better photos from now on, as they really do make all the difference. Just to let you see how much of a difference, I shot pretty much the same photo with the two old and the new camera. None of these photos have been changed in any way, except for me writing on them, that is.

When the image gets this lovely from just using the automatic settings on my EOS, can you imagine what one could do when one understands more about the manual settings? I’m in love!