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Man, I can’t remember the last time I actually downloaded some blog worthy words from my mind to this blog.

Things have been so insane lately. We got this task of taking pictures of an entire gymnastics team–that took us to getting up before 5 in the morning to do our day jobs to get out and take pictures until about 8 at night, which of course was about an hour from our house, and then going through the pictures to make sure they were all sharp. That was tough. Not to mention that two weeks before, I was sweating in nasty New Orleans.

I also got a new digital camera body, and two new lenses (the same one–18-50 f/2.8, because the original broke…then suddenly the second one broke). And now I have to wait for B&H Photo to reopen (they’ve been closed for the past week for holiday) to return the lens…which is weird because I am heading back to New York next week–so I should just drop it off. Eh, I don’t know. This lens is making me lose faith in Sigma, though I am in love with their 10-20mm.

So pretty much, for the past couple months, I’ve been all about taking pictures. I got to experience a ton of new things, like professionally taking pictures, to coming up with a mobile studio, to a crash course on lighting. Not to mention the ongoing addiction to Flickr.

This won’t let up, either. I mean, next week, I’m back in New York. Then soon after, it’s a photo excursion to Page, Arizona for some Antelope Canyon loving. Then quite literally afterwards, I am going to San Antonio for some food and photography. Plus, I have to sprinkle in a return trip to New Orleans and Denver somewhere in there.

So there you have it. I spend as much time on the shutter as I do clicking the left mouse button.

I want you to know that I am doing my part to meet the crisis by reducing my carbon footprint, big time.
Everytime I am rushed to the hospital, I insist on a hybrid ambulance.

Dick Cheney (at Annual Radio & TV Correspondents Dinner)

Frik.

I like it.

And that sucks, as I don’t really want to spend $300 just to process my RAW images–something I could already do in Camera Raw CS3.

But sheesh–Ligthtroom does it a little better.

Frik.

The New Kids on the Block are getting back together.

Yeah.

You can say whatever you want, but I know deep down inside…

This is radical. I heard about this last year, but I never really thought about how useful it is until now.

This thing will allow me (with a compactflash adapter) to take pictures from my camera and it will automatically save it to a folder on my laptop. Excellent! It only works with JPEGs, but that’s OK. It’ll keep the RAW on the card for when its time to do some processing. At least the clients can view the images right off the bat.