Year In Pictures: 2010/12/21 - Cookies!

[plonq]

Today I made cookies and managed to avoid serious injury in the process. If I had been thinking I'd have taken a picture with some kind of winter solstice theme, but I was too busy whiling away my day in idleness (making of cookies notwithstanding) so the cookies will have to suffice.

My tentative plan is to make more cookies tomorrow.

(Disclaimer: This plate contains only a representational sample of the cookies and does not show the batch in its entirety. )



One of the first things I am going to do in the new year is take my Nikon in to get the sensor cleaned. Given what the camera has been through, I am pleased that the only trouble it has given me over the years is some stubborn dust on the sensor. I have been working around the issue by taking occasional reference photos so that the camera can map out the dust, but that is not an ideal solution.

Some of the other cameras I looked at when I purchased this one had self-cleaning sensors, and there are times when I have questioned my wisdom for buying a camera that did not.

Comments

[aurifer.livejournal.com]

Solstice-themed:
Take a picture of some indistinct clouds. When asked what the picture is of, say that there was a full-cookie eclipse, but that it was a cloudy night.

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

Both of my D-SLR's have that self-cleaning feature, and I still have to manually dust off the filter over the sensor from time to time. And in one case, I had it done professionally. It does slow down the rate of accumulation. But doing risky things like changing a lens on a really humid day will still result in dust that sticks so hard that the self-cleaning can't get rid of it.