Bonavista, Newfoundland

Friday 9 August 2002
I bought my wife her first digital camera - a Pentax EL 200 - in Vancouver in September 2000. It had a 2.11 megapixel sensor and cost 500 quid! Two years later, I was using it along with my film camera as she had gone on to Olympus, Sigma and possibly Canon by then - she liked to be on the cutting edge. I was waiting for Pentax to bring out a digital SLR as I already had the lenses and in October 2003 I got my iSTD.
In the meantime I messed around with the little Pentax and got the odd nice pic, such as this one taken of the Ryan Properties looking across the harbour in Bonavista, Newfoundland, the place where John Cabot supposedly landed and claimed what was to become Canada for God & England, though nobody knew how much there was to be claimed and in 1532 Jacques Cartier sailed into the St Lawrence River and claimed it all for God & France. Needless to say, the British and French fell out over who had claimed what.