The Coy Pond

Our little boy loves my new flash

I knew he was special, but I didn't realize how special he was.

I think most of you know that I am a photo geek. So when I dropped my flash at the Oregon zoo a few months ago, and it stopped working,  I was really sad. My birthday was the perfect justification for an upgrade, so I spent a $200 on Ebay for my new flash, and so far it is working perfectly. The first couple of days that I had it,  I started playing with it. Jarrod fell in love with it, and wanted it really badly. He is reaching for it in this picture. When we got our new computer we bought the new Photoshop Elements for playing with photos and neither of us had used it before. Christy has been using photoshop for years, and she saw a lens flare on one of the menus. For you non-photo geeks, a lens flare is generally something that you want to avoid in your photos, since it means a bad reflection is hitting your lens (like the sun reflecting off of a chrome bumper right in your eyes). But the more we played with the lens flare, the funnier it looked. I think it is no surprise that our little boy has been wanting our phone for months. I thought he just wanted to talk to me, but maybe he was trying to “phone home”.