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Cessie is a model, you know what I mean....

Cessie had a bit of a photo shoot today, and she shook her little toosh on the, ummmm, dog walk. You can't even tell anymore that 2 months ago she was homeless and she had major surgery on her arm. She has totally fattened up and her fur is growing back over her huge scar. Pug -tastic I say ;)

Auggie on the other hand, he didn't think that this was any fun.
I was so excited when I found  this jogging stroller at a garage sale when I was pregnant. Unfortunately, today was probably the 4th time Aug has ridden in it. But considering that I still have 30lbs of prego weight to loose, I think he will be ridding in it more and more now that it is nice outside.

Tomorrow Noah has a concert at the university-- he is playing a guitar solo which I am so excited to see. And tonight, mommy and daddy have a date to go see  Wilco in concert.  I am assuming that Jeff Tweedy will be playing a guitar solo also, but it probably won't be as good as Noah's. ;)

New Baby; Same Bag

She arrived from Amazon last week. Canon SD1000 Elph.  I thought I'd never waste money on a point and shoot, but lately, with a 7 year old, a baby and a very large diaper bag in tow, I have found that I no longer have the capacity to carry around my bulky Canon SLR.  Turns out that heading to the dark side wasn't such a bad idea.

She shoots video that actually is watchable upon my television set.

She has manual settings that make me feel like I am the one responsible for the shot.

She is shoots more mega pixels as my last Nikon D100--  7.1 to be exact.

And thanks to her friend, the SanDisk Ultra II 2 gig card, she is fast as lightning.

But her biggest asset in my book is that she fits perfectly in the pocket of my purse / yoga bag / diaper tote  and my husband's big hands. Yes, my husband the photography teacher has been shooting with it too.   I wasn't sure that he would come anywhere near it since it doesn't shoot out 4x5 negatives, but he likes her tiny, powerful body . That's men for you.

Oh I forgot to say that if you have all sorts of time before you need to take your photo, you can designate a color in your frame that this very smart camera will select while rendering the rest of the image in black and white. Auggie thinks this feature is pretty cool, but I don't think I will ever remember to use it again. 

The lens quality on the SD1000 seems to be pretty good, what else would you expect from a Canon though.  (Full review here on DPhoto Journal )

Basically I am in love. Not to say that I am trading in the SLR, I still needed its precision for things like this last week: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=290208995622&ssPageName=STRK:MESO:IT&ih=019#ebayphotohosting

Now back to shooting my new favorite subject, I like to call this one "Portrait of the Artist's Son, With Carrot."