Even though Tuesday is our designated knit night, and I’ve been doing this just about every week for almost three years, yesterday I forgot my knitting. In my rush to make sure I had not only my lunch but also my umbrella, I left my knitting bag—and Connie’s!—at my front door. Undeterred, I made my way down to our regular coffee shop as soon as I’d left work last night.

But what happens at knit night when you’ve got no knitting? Me, I take photos.

I am such an amatuer photographer that I wonder if amatuer is even too strong a word for what I do. I love taking photos, but I know nothing of composition, aperture, level settings. I take pictures because I like having something interesting to look at long after the moment’s passed.

I get a little silly sometimes. I pretend that I’m a great photographer, and attempt to get really artsy shots with my simple point-and-shoot camera, a Kodak EasyShare M530. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. But it’s a fun camera and I’ve taken over 500 shots in one weekend before.

I’d like to go back and take better photos of my finished knitting, but many of those items have already been gifted to their intended recipients. (I tend to do mostly gift knitting.) My plan is to make this DIY photo studio, so my FO photos look much better than this.