“After an entire semester’s worth of waiting, I have finally caught the object of my desires!”

If you’ve read my photo essay, “Fire Alarm in the ISAT Building”, you remember my attempts in vain for the most part to get a picture of a strobe light in action. Well, my waiting has finally paid off. Over Christmas break I discovered a feature on my camera called “Multi”, which took nine pictures in a row and arranged them in a grid form. Knowing that pulling the fire alarm at ISAT is illegal (as is pulling an alarm anywhere), I wanted to try out this feature on a strobe light. The lights I tried it out on ended up being those at good old Potomac Hall. We had a pre-announced fire drill on the 23rd of January, and so I “pre-evacuated” and readied the Mavica. I got lots of fun pictures, as you can see in the page on “College Life” related to this event. It didn’t end until the all-clear was given by RAs. Still, this multi-image feature makes it far too easy. Just point, and see what the nine shots gets you. Problem solved. All that stressing, saving, deleting, and viewing on the perimeter of the ISAT Building, and if I had known about the “Multi” feature back then, that photo essay would have been distinctly different than it ended up being. Still, the things we learn sometimes…