Boots

Boots
Iraq 2006

Mudfoot. Infantry. This is probably one of my favorite pics to come back from iraq; the colors of wet, drying and dry mud on my boots, the oild and garbage in the mud, the colors on the floor, everything.


All photos are taken on my olympus one touch camera; its just your average everyday camera, so I'm sure you dont care about the features, etc, like on a real camera. I played around with the settings a little bit, for better contrast, or more color, or whatever, but nothing special. This is my first digital; before I had a one touch 35mm, and a couple of very nice Nikon manuals with interchangeable lenses. When I bought the digital, I had to choose between the one touch and a nice SLR; yes, the SLR would have been better, but at the cost of convenience. I was able to carry the one touch on my belt 24/7, under my body armor, in addition to my other gear. I know that I'd never be able to do something like that w/ a SLR, and I'd have missed so many random scenes. It paid the price though; there's not much left of it, sand in the lens, controls shot. It did its job though!