Photography and Highways

On the Christmas of 2006, I got my first camera. It was an HP Photosmart M425. It had a tiny screen, but otherwise it did the job. With that I started to get interested in photography. I opened up a Flickr account in mid-2007. The one thing I photographed a lot was highways. Back then, I lived with my mother in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Every other weekend, I would go up to Connecticut to see my father. This involved a 450 mile trip every two weeks. As a result, I was very interested in highways, and I enjoyed photographing my trips.

Ever since I was in second grade, I've been developing a fictional place called "Ianistan." The main feature of Ianistan is its very intricate highway system. Highways have been replaced, relocated, and purged over the past 10 years. Originally, the system had no order. Recently, I renumbered every road in the system. I removed the Northeast Route system. I removed Northeast Route 9, the ultimate highway throughout the northeast. It's been replaced by a more realistic set of highways.

Anyways, back to photography, the original subject I wanted to write about here...

This past Christmas, I got a Nikon Coolpix L22. Yes, I'm still using a point-and-shoot to do my photography. Unfortunately, I don't have $550 for a DSLR camera. I really wish I did. But because I want to be a math major, I don't think it's really worth it right now. However, I'm trying to do my best with what I have. If that's a point-and-shoot, that will do.