a nasty surprise

first, the non-nasty news.

I really like using my new photo diary. I've made three entries for shoots in the past week:

• WSU demo garden in Bellevue


• the Bellevue Botanical Gardens


• the Dunn Gardens in Seattle

I actually was out on several shoots yesterday, but I'm using an analog camera, Hiro's old Canon, to try and decide which lenses I might want to get when I might be able to get a new camera. it's been fun shooting analog, and I am liking the Canon 100mm macro lens I rented from Glazers. The 65mm lens I rented is also great (and it offers 5X magnification, which is incredible!), but it would require a studio environment, really, to take advantage of it, because the depth of field for it is fractional.

so what was the nasty surprise?

so nasty that I can't really go into details. suffice it to say that I believe I am having some minor internal bleeding going on. I talked to an on-call physician last night and will be talking to my surgeon today. probably going to need a few tests. joy. my working assumption is that the problem can be fixed.

so, panicking optimistically would describe the current mindset...