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Beside the Stream and Pioneer Woman

Is it the camera business - and software that brings editing and enhancing to the amateur, not to mention printing - that is behind some blogs today. Well, yes, I would say so. Now, I don't know what was the chicken and what was the egg with the the Pioneer Woman but along with her stories of her life, there is a pictorial place that few of us experience - the Old West, the New West, the prairie, nature and so forth. So, yes, Nikon and Hewitt-Packard would take notice of the potential for marketing. And Adobe Photoshop - hey, is there much difference between being talked through a recipe and talked through photo editing? Probably not. And she is starting a whole new blog devoted to it, along with the Pioneer Woman Cooks blog.

Now, on the upper right sidebar of Confessions of a Pioneer Woman, Beside the Stream is featured - a blog with lots of pictures about the mountains and Colorado. This lady, I think her name is Alice, starts right off telling you she hadn't really taken pictures until a "professional" camera arrived at her house. And now she has a tutor. I don't know what brand of camera she has and it probably doesn't matter. I think the idea is to get people wanting to take more photos and do more things with them and that leads to overall growth in camera sales, software and accessories.

This is okay with me. Perhaps soon I will be looking each day at photos of living in a bayou, in a bunch of cities, in the desert, in the High Plains, in the Sierras, in resorts, and so forth. Well, it should be educational.

Say, anyone want to give me a fancy camera to capture a small Indiana town in photos. I'm from Lagrange County; I can do farms and Amish and Shipshewana. I'm from the pioneer stock of the area - I've got old photos that can be resurrected.

Nikon, Canon, Olympus . . . if you're interested, remember you can reach me at jodyvance@mac.com. Or leave a comment - I'll come running.

posted by Jody @ 10:56 AM