Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.

08 December 2007

Yesterday I mentioned how difficult it is to build and manage a website without a computer. Or camera. Or sometimes, I think, a brain.

It's been a terrible day, very stressful. At the end of the day we have lost precious time, impossible-to-replace money we don't have anyway, and - well, read on. Daniel and I are just sitting here, looking at each other, and wondering if it is actually all worth it.

The little girl with the fish kicks in, so I guess there was something cosmic in choosing that story for yesterday.

We begged a camera for a half-day. Daniel raced off to the community to snap enough fotos for this week, to cover the blog. The moment he got out of the van, the sky opened up. Every time the rained eased just a little, he shot away. Got home, came with me to the Lan House where we are now sitting... and discovered the camera had been set in such a way that all the fotos he took are the size of postage stamps. Pretty useless.

Yet another lesson on his journey... every time he uses borrowed equipment, he has to master its idiosyncrasies. If you actually OWN a camera, you get to know it intimately, and everything happens just as you want. This is how it happens in a perfect, predictable world - I've never been there... not even for a visit.

The rain, the camera setting... just another of those imponderables, the little things upon which our lives are made or broken.

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