our new toy

so i got an early birthday present. and i think it will count as this year's christmas present too... we've been salivating over dslr cameras for awhile now, and after borrowing our friend lori's nikon d60, we knew this would be a great camera for us. photography is really the one interest that brian and i share (after God, our children, and 24!). so i convinced brian that we could get a mint condition refurbished d60 for a great deal and that it would be worth the savings to go the refurbed route... the camera came a week ago, and we went to clickin'. within 24 hours, we'd taken 188 pictures...and we'd found 4 hot pixels. argh! this thing was supposed to be in mint condition! the scratch on the LCD screen and the generic lens cap cover could be overlooked, but we did not want to sacrifice image quality. well, after checking out the prices of new models, i realized that we could get a new d60 for just $80 more at amazon... so that's what we did. the refurb is already back at the store, and our new d60 has seen 365 clicks to date. and we're having loving it. (by the way, the place where we ordered the refurbed camera agreed that it should not have had any hot pixels after being refurbished... so i think buying refurbed is still a great way to save some money. we just got a bad one...)

here are my favorite shots so far: (some with lori's, some with the faulty refurb, some with the new one...)












i told you we were having fun! :) i am really looking forward to learning the ins and outs of good photography with my husband!