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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.

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.

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.

 

If you like Beagles, come check out my set of doggy pictures.

We’ve never been, but read that it’s a great place for pictures. So here you go, Zion National Park.

We’ve been busy. Moving. Putting together a new office. Working. Travelling.

Anyhow, we finally got to post all the pictures from our wedding photographer.

You can see them here.

So, my wife and I celebrated our honeymoon in a very much needed vacation. It was very fun–relaxing and scenic. To anyone who hasn’t gone, you should take a cruise. The size of the cruise ship is large enough such that you don’t really feel the waves. We both thought we were going to get motion sick, but nope. I will post pictures shortly with more detail on what we did–seriously, it was super fun.

Anyhow, while we were gone, the world didn’t slow down with us.

Apple came out with some cool new products. But for me, the biggest Apple story was the $200 cheaper price of the iPhone. That sucked, but at least they didn’t change the hardware. At least I got $100 of it back, if only for a few minutes, as we purchased the iPod Touch moments after getting the credit at the Apple Store, Manhattan.

I also recently (yesterday) finally finished reader over 3,000 blog posts in my aggregator.

We finally picked up a new game console. Nope–it’s not the 360 Elite that I thought I’d own by now, but rather a Wii. While pushing the cart around Costco, Trisha saw one and I immediately saw the console’s potential. I actually didn’t think I’d own one. However, after getting one, I have also started working to lose the 15+ pounds gained on the cruise.

Vowed to never own another Western Digital device. Before leaving, I made sure there was enough space on the media center to record whatever we wanted while being gone for almost a month. Well, half of the terabyte setup we have seemed to no longer be readable by the computer. After checking the connections, the drive started up to a series of clicks. But still not visible by the media center. Boo. This has happened to me before, too–and I ended up losing tons of stuff. From now on, it’s Seagate or Hitachi.

Sony came out with a new DSLR. Awesome. With improved image stabilization and the optional vertical grip and backwards compatibility with the Minolta lenses. So now I am going to wait until it enters the south side of $1k.

Saw a screening of The Kingdom with the director, Peter Berg (that’s him in the bad flash-free iPhone picture above–loved you in Corky Romano). See that movie when it comes out. There’s a scene in there that’s going to make you want to jump out of your seat and join the FBI.

So, while there’s more items that currently escape me, that’s what happened while we were on the other side of the country.

I went to New York and did all that workie stuff, and the only cool picture I managed to take was of the dinner I had by my lonesome in Long Island.

Click for more pictures.