I love dig­i­tal cam­eras. I’ve owned some­thing like eight dif­fer­ent cam­eras over the course of roughly ten years. I keep upgrad­ing, as they con­tinue to get more pow­er­ful. My lat­est is a Sony DSC H70, which I’ve had since about June 2011. I made the switch from a beau­ti­ful lit­tle Canon, as I wanted to zoom while tak­ing video. (We no longer use a tra­di­tional video cam­era for tak­ing fam­ily videos.)

My Sony is a just few steps above a basic point-and-shoot, and yet it takes HD video and ren­ders amaz­ing sharp­ness in very low-light sit­u­a­tions, such as when I shot this bass gui­tar. (This unre­touched shot was taken while some­one was play­ing this bass!)

A huge fac­tor in my pur­chase of a dig­i­tal cam­era is that it must fit in my pocket. If I have to carry around a huge honk­ing cam­era, I guar­an­tee I would take less pho­tos than I take now. “In the ball­park” qual­ity is bet­ter than no shot at all.

We had a huge snow­fall on Decem­ber 22nd. The rem­nants are still melt­ing away, in spite of a few days in the 60 degree range (fahren­heit, or 15–20 c).

Since that was before Christ­mas, our neigh­bor had his mas­sive light dis­play on — even though some of it got buried in snow.

I thought you might enjoy this desk­top back­ground < Click link to download.

I took the photo on June 11, 2011 near Guanella Pass in Colorado.

It may look like a bor­ing photo, but trust me, it will make an awe­some desktop.