What a Life!

Joey’s starting to take an interest in story time. In typical Joey fashion, however, he brings – and reads – his own story.

Visit here to see the entire photo story.* Captions under the photos narrate the story, so be sure to view them in order. For the Flickr-challenged [you know who you are], click on the first thumbnail at the top of the series (not the large photo on the left), and then click on the thumbnail on the right of each page to flip through the photos. Note that the photos are arranged in the set from oldest to newest (rather than newest to oldest as they appear in the main photostream), so when there are two thumbnails on the right, click on the thumbnail on the right to view the next photo in the set.

*For the photographers among us, this photo story also includes a lesson on why shutter-priority is better than aperture priority when taking low-light pictures without flash. My general method is to put my camera in shutter-priority and then adjust the ISO so that the aperture is as wide-open as possible without affecting the quality of the picture. In the first few pictures, however, the camera was in aperture-priority mode and I needed to bump up my ISO. In that mode, the pictures have motion blur because the shutter speed was too low. When I’m in shutter-priority mode, I know I won’t take pictures that have motion blur, even if I have the ISO too high. The aperture will blink at me and let me know if I need to bump up the ISO in order to get a adequately exposed picture, and if I have the ISO too high, the aperture will simply close down and I’ll still have a picture that’s in focus. So please ignore the quality of the photos and enjoy the contents.