I got myself a decent camera!

I finally bit the bullet recently and got myself a digital SLR camera!

It's a Sony Alpha A390 with a 'super-zoom' lens. It cost me a pretty penny but I'm pleased with it to say the least.

Shooting at a very grubby mirror wasn't all that effective

I didn't just get the camera for my blogging however; I've found that in my journalistic endeavours, lots of publications prefer you to take your own pictures, and these of course need to be of print quality- which my little Nikon (which I've lost anyway!) just wasn't fulfilling.

I also got this gorgeous vintage camera case from ebay.

Funnily enough, I actually bought this before I got the actual camera! I was having a browse at camera prices on ebay and typed in 'SLR camera' and this beauty popped up first in the listings with less than 5 minutes left.

I tend to get a bit impulsive on ebay and bought it regardless of not yet owning a camera for it to house! It was only around £5 and I'm so pleased I got it.

I haven't had that much opportunity to mess around with it yet, but here are a few pictures I took in the snow now I'm back in Yorkshire.

The view of Pen-y-ghent (one of the 3 peaks) from my house

My super-cute dog, who hates going out in the cold!

These are unedited as I haven't had the chance (or the effort) to install photoshop yet.

If you'd like to see the others I took, feel free to check out my Flickr photostream here.

Expect higher quality images on my blog from now on! (I've had a bash at altering the width to accommodate bigger pictures- did you notice?)

P.S

If you haven't already, and you're a female aged 18-30, please please please would you do me a massive favour and complete this short survey about fashion magazines? I promise that it doesn't take longer than 5 minutes and you'd be helping out a very grateful student :) T'is the season to be jolly and all!

Hope everyone has a fab Christmas-day tomorrow!

Foxy
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