Jpatrickm

As a photographer I’m always thinking, “Damn, why don’t I have my camera with me”. I have several of them, I just either forget to carry them with me or they just aren’t convenient to carry around. I have a Canon D30 SLR digital, which I use for work and any high quality shots I want to take, but it’s cumbersome.
I used to have a Motorola V600 phone that had a built in camera and I really liked the pictures it would take and the unique look it produced, although they were mostly just for fun (see Mobile Gallery). I replaced that phone, however, with an Audiovox PPC4100 Pocket PC phone that does not have a camera.

I’ve been searching around for a small digital camera that is not too expensive, that would create funky pictures and that I wouldn’t mind carrying around everywhere with me. So, I picked up a little Vivitar Vivicam 3545 a few days ago. It’s a little pocket camera with 16MB of built-in memory. On the medium quality setting it holds about 170 pictures and connects to the computer via a USB port. It’s kind of fun because you don’t know what the pictures look like until you download them (it doesn’t have any preview screen).

Anyway, I took a few pictures with it and uploaded them to a new photo album called Vivicam. They are just a few snapshots from Thanksgiving day spend with friends.

Thanksgiving in San Diego. I woke up in that end-of-November-christmas-in-the-air mood. I figured I would get ready and head to Starbucks for some holiday blend coffee to warm me up. I ironed my shirt, threw on some jeans, pulled on a sweater and headed out. I opened the front door and was hit with a blast of 70 degree heat. There wasn’t going to be any scraping the frost off the windshield this year.

Hope everyone had a filling Thanksgiving!