Lessons Learned

As with all new ventures, you learn lessons.  One highly important lesson I learned was to read the manual... even just a tad.  But I was just too excited to get started once the battery was fully charged.

Here I was working in the yard/garden on a beautiful day snapping away. I took some awesome shots of the freshly blooming roses, the garden decorations, a SNAKE (real one) and a really cool shot of my hard lemonade in a frozen mug with the blurred garden as a back drop.

Did I say I took awesome (downright gorgeous if I might say myself) shots?!  I couldn't wait to transfer to my computer to share with my family and friends on facebook.

Here's where the lesson was learned.  Oops, no card, but no worries. I unpacked the cord, attached it to the camera and my laptop and ... no pictures!  What?  How could that be?  My old point and shoot would save the shots on the camera if the card wasn't in.

Upon reviewing my manual I discovered how to set the camera so I can't release the shutter if there's no card and it even flashes "card" on screen.

Pfft!

Luckily, I did do a little CPP of the snakes: