It’s official.  Zoey killed her monkey.  There are only so many times that I will sew her toy back together before I finally give up.  Those so many times happen to equal one.  My emergency surgery lasted a couple weeks before I discovered a horrible tragedy.  A horrible and messy tragedy.  When Zoey makes a hole, she makes a hole.  There was stuffing everywhere.  And I took pictures, what else!

I also used this opportunity to try out the various settings on my new camera.  I must say, I am very impressed!

This was the full automatic mode.  It gave the typical washed out flash with glowy eyes effect.

Next, I tried turning the flash off.  Eh.  It made the picture yellow.  Also, Zoey felt the need to pose with her work of art.

Finally, I went to full manual mode.  I upped the ISO, changed the white balance and kept the flash off.  I was very surprised and pleased with the results.  It is still a point and shoot camera and indoor pictures are my weakness, but I think the manual mode has a world options.  I haven’t tried out the macro setting or any of the other features.