Because I Can

I found the black and white button on my camera, so I decided to change the color of my mountains. There are a few more buttons on this camera than my last and I am quite convinced I'm not using many of them correctly. I've even taken to reading the manual, which goes against my typical learning style of trial and error. The manual likes to repeat the words aperture, shutter speed, exposure, and focus. The only one I completely understand is focus, because the pictures look blurry if I don't get it right. The other three sometimes make sense when I read them and people explain them to me, but when I look at the camera and the conditions I'm taking pictures in I get a little lost as to what I should do. The arrows and numbers in each direction get me confused.

Last weekend, Bryant and I walked down to the river bottom and all my pictures were overexposed. I obviously didn't adjust the camera correctly for the bright snow and afternoon sunshine. Had I read the manual prior to our walk, I'd have known that when the numbers on the camera flash red, something's wrong. Unfortunately, I didn't know this information then. So, this afternoon I set the tripod on the back deck and figured I'd experiment a little between loads of laundry and house chores. After clicking a few times under different settings, I made my way back to the computer. I downloaded the pictures and erased the images and only then realized the camera setting information also erased. Oh well . . . I guess I'm not totally clueless because I was able to figure which ones were taken on the black and white button!