@[email protected] Still don't have a notion what I'm at with the cameras, but I'm having a fair bit of craic giving them a go.

It's much easier to keep your thumb out of the frame with a full camera body than with a phone camera, at the very least.

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Unfortunately, I never got a photo of the Indian monkey that grabbed and tried to steal my hair, unfortunately learning that it was stuck to my head. Next time I'll be quicker on the trigger and catch him in the act 💥

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It motivated me to start going through the pile of photos we've saved across the last couple of years, pick out some good ones, try out some edits, and recently, post them up on pixelfed.

I'm not feeling instagram - I have a mostly-unused account from 2014, but my once-upon-a-time classmates don't need to see a black and white photo of a reflection I thought looked cool.

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I got a Christmas gift from my company of an Android tablet. It arrived after we got back from our trip. I didn't expect to ever use it, but found out you can set it to cycle through a Google Photos slideshow while it is docked. So I set it up on my desk at home (I work from home for half of the week), with a new album of some trip highlights.

It has been really nice, I really enjoyed seeing some photos cycle past while I pretend to work.

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We really enjoyed taking the photos, and learned bits about editing them. My fiancée's instagram stories featured some of the results.

I watched a lot of photography youtube videos - very relaxing.

We bought a smaller sexier Nikon (Z-fc) before our recent trip to India (for our friends' wedding), since the Z6 is pretty weighty. The Z-fc is a very cute camera, much easier to travel with. Staying in the Z-mount domain seemed sensible, not that I've stocked up on lenses.

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I built a NAS in mid-2022 to have a place to store all the new photos. My first time building a computer. Half-solved the problem we had before, of photos being saved on SD cards floating around the apartment, and having our only copy in an unnamed folder on my partner's laptop desktop.

But the NAS was still not really organised, and was mostly treated as write-only; we took photos, put them there in arbitrary directories, and forgot about them. No backups. We lost some files. 🤷‍♂️