Snap Snap Grin Grin, Say No More! LOTS of PICS

I love my camera.
I really do.
It's not spectacular - It's just a point and shoot, 3.2MP Olympus C-3020 Zoom that we bought 4 years ago, just before Matthew was born.
After doting on our firstborn and spending hundreds and hundreds on photofinishing, to capture the first smile, first time eating peas, first tickle,fart and bubble blowing, first birthday, first everything, I realized that if I wanted more kids, and being 7 months pregnant, that was starting to look like a reality, I'd better do something about the photographic hole in my proverbial pocket, draining our paycheques as we sought to get yet another picture of 'the baby'. I had thoroughly documented on film every waking hour of our beloved (and a few sleeping "isn't he precious" shots) that I knew we simply couldn't sustain the expense of photographing multiple kids, and continuing to pay for all the blurry shots, all the half blinking shots, and all the times he lunged at me trying to grab my camera.

Enter the digital age!

We splurged on a really good (back then) camera - knowing that we'd more than make up the cost by only printing 1 out of every 28745 pictures that actually was worth printing. I loved having a delete button. Fuzzy picture? No problem DELETED
Weirdo expression? DELETED, sweet potatoes in the hair? DELETED, and on it went.

Then Matthew was born, and we went crazy with the picture taking. We actually took MORE pictures - because they were 'free' and anything that wasn't worthy of putting in an album simply went bye bye....

So I have a great relationship with my camera - I've managed to coax out the very best it can offer - and then some, with the magic of Photoshop.

Yesterday however, I dropped my camera. It's been dropped before, it is a sturdy camera, and has lived to tell the tale. but not yesterday. Yesterday was the end of my good ol' camera.
I dropped it on the kitchen floor. Cameras don't like ceramic tile - at least not being hurled into it. The casing broke. And while I could still view pics off the card - and download them - The camera no longer takes pictures. It's broken, and along with it, so is my heart - because I LOVE my camera, and now it's broken.

Granted, I could get an awesome camera for the price we paid for it - but I wasn't really anticipating shelling out major bucks for a new camera JUST yet.

So, I give you a sampling of my camera. Shots from the last 4 years - some of my favourites, and some more of my favourites. May it rest in peace - And may I get an even MORE awesome camera!! because I really like taking pics :)
































ETA - Wait, I think I like this last one better in Sepia Tone.....BTW - this is the very LAST pic I took with my camera. Thank goodness for photoshop...