Someone special in our family reached a new milestone, birthday wise.  I decided to make a birthday card, instead of buying one.  I wanted to get an image from each of the 60 years of Ann’s life but we don’t have any images of many of the early years.  I know that is something our kids may not understand and certainly something our grandchildren would never comprehend.  But I was able to get an image for a few of the early years and then every year since 1966.  I put them all as thumbnails on a single 11×14 page, which I had printed.  Click this image to see it enlarged.

Ann seemed to like the card and gift.  She can take her new camera on our upcoming cruise.

Later we decided to go for a walk.  Since we are no longer on day light savings time, we did not have much sunlight.  What a good chance for Ann to try out her new camera.  Here are a few of the pictures Ann took with her new camera.

Those are pretty good pictures in low light conditions for a point and shoot type camera, don’t you think?  By the time we were about back home it was getting quite dark. I had brought my Nikon D300 big camera along and took the picture below of Ann with very low light conditions, hand held at 1/30 second without a flash, at ISO 2000.   A flash would have made the background look black.  Yea, my Nikon D300 Digital SLR still has a role!

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