Handy Tips for Using your Digital Camera

Take your camera with you
This may seem obvious but it appears that it isn’t so: you can’t take a picture if you don’t have your camera. Therefore, if you purchase a digital camera — take it with you. Take it to work. Take it on trips. Take it when you go for a walk. Take it to visit relatives and friends.

Don’t set aside your digital camera for only “special occasions.” I’ve used my camera to photograph car wrecks (the guilty parties were not very happy, the innocent were delighted, the insurance companies were bemused).

Interesting clouds, strange flowers, patterns in fallen leaves, funny signs and bumper stickers, and a variety of other things I would never have “wasted” on film. Apart from batteries and electricity, digital cameras cost very little after the initial purchase.

So take pictures. A lot of pictures.