new(s)

Lately, I've been in the market/ quest for a new camera because a freak accident happened to the last one. So, I was in office max or staples no office max... I was in office max last Friday (which is a store I can only spend about 10 minutes in because of the smell of office supply's gets to me) And I was shopping the clearance for new sharpies/ pens for this drawing I was working on when all the sudden I saw it! I saw this box in the corner of my eye that looked like it wrote ASHLEY THIS IS YOUR DREAM CAMERA AND I'M ON SALE! haha So, I quickly dropped the sharpies that I was holding... I didn't run towards but rather did a nice speed walk. It was Canon Powershot s5. It was my dream camera-- One that I could shoot photos of my art with, etc. It was like had been reduced to my affordable price range. This camera was made more me. So I left that stinky store without sharpies that day but a new camera... here's my new camera!

Powershot S5 IS Features:

• 8-Megapixel CCD for images up to 3264 x 2448
• Canon 12x zoom (36-432mm equiv.) with Optical Image Stabilization
• Super Macro closeup focus to 0 inches!
• Widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio for HDTV display
• Articulated 2.5-inch Vari-angle color LCD flips forward and rotates 270°
• Program AE, Shutter-priority, Aperture-priority, full Manual
• Image zone modes: Portrait, Landscape, Night scene and Stitch assist
• Interval shooting and Exposure and Focus Bracketing
• Movie w/stereo sound, 640x480 or 320x240, 30fps or 15fps
• Shutter speeds from 15 secs to 1/3200 sec in Manual mode.
• Evaluative, Center-weighted average or Spot (Center or AF-point)
• High-speed 1.5 frames per second continuous shooting
• Up to 60-second sound memos for still images
• Sharpness, Contrast and Saturation is adjustable
• ISO sensitivity: Auto, High ISO Auto or 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600 presets
• Built-in flash with Auto, Fill, Red-eye reduction and Slow-sync modes
• New flash hot shoe for using Canon EX Speedlites
• SD/SDHC/MMC memory card compatible, 32MB included
• Powered by four standard AA type batteries
• USB 2.0 Hi-Speed data transfer to host computer
• PictBridge and Canon Direct Print compatible

And here's the first thing I shot with it:
My beautiful grandmother on her 81st birthday.
(hey I never said I was good at photography)

And this My karate kid pen and ink portrait: