The last month has been full of ups and downs. My birthday was 5th April (as it is every year) and for my 60th, my offspring bought me a Canon 800D camera. Very sweet!

Alas I was too busy to use it, apart from at The Big Family Gathering which was a Combined Churches community fun day on April 7th. I had a lot of fun on that day taking a bazillion photos, but it was all point and click with no real thought abut the camera and the fantastic capabilities that it has.

Then we received some news that rocked our emotions somewhat. And my fish tank sprung a leak and we had to do an emergency fish transplant and buy a new system, which I might have enjoyed more if it hadn’t been so dramatic.

I don’t think I mentioned the termites that we discovered in the church.

And we bought a car (a brand new Hyundai Tucson) but there was no space in my emotions to get excited- not even about the awesome technology that it has.

Saturday night we had our “official” 60th party, and it was good to get together with some great friends.

So today, my day off, I thought it was time to give the new camera a test out. These photos are straight from the camera, unedited and unimproved. The full album is on my Google photos page: