Point & Shoots
Posted on | September 18, 2009 | No Comments
The Mohonk Mountain House, located just outside of New Paltz, NY, celebrated its 74th Garden Holiday week this year. Held the week before Labor Day, Linda and I were asked to return for the sixth time to do an evening keynote presentation and a morning garden walk.
Over the years that we have been part of the Garden Holiday program, we have become friends with a number of the people who come each year. One of these, Dick Chamberlain, loves to take pictures. This year he told me he decided to enter the 21st century. ‘I am going Digital. Can you give me some advice?”
I asked Dick the usual questions. What are you going to do with the images? Do you like working on the computer? How many lenses do you think you will need? Is weight a consideration? His answers – I like taking pictures. I don’t like computers. I want to get rid of my heavy camera bag with all the lenses. I am not planning on making large prints or have any desire to get the images published. Shirley and I like to travel and I want to be able to take pictures of the places we visit.’
After spending a half hour or so, I suggested Dick consider a point and shoot camera. “A POINT AND SHOOT? I don’t think so. I am a little more serious than that.” “Ah,” I said, “but you are mistaken. The lowly P&S has become a valuable tool in the digital age. Many professionals are carrying a P&S for some of their shooting, especially when they don’t want to lug along a large camera bag.”
I pulled my Canon G9 out of my pocket and handed it to him. “I took this on my morning walk in the garden today instead of wheeling the camera bag. I wasn’t planning on a shooting session so I brought it just in case there was something I wanted to capture. Linda also uses it to capture images of the grandchildren.”
At the end of our talk, Dick decided that a Canon G10 or maybe the new G11 would be the perfect choice to meet his photography needs.
Oh, the image at the beginning of this post was captured on a G9 during my morning walk. It is an image of the main garden at Mohonk depicting a chess board.
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