After being on my feet for six hours this morning, my knees were killing me, and I was just generally exhausted. But with hours to kill and a strong desire not to pay another 50 quetzales for a morning hike tomorrow, I went back in (I had noticed one nature…
Most irrelevant, pointless blog entry yet: Spent a good part of today and yesterday reviewing the 400+ pictures I took at the zoo (SOOOOO excessive). I posted pics in the Zoo gallery on my photosite. Reviewing photos on the computer, as opposed to slides in a projector, is PAINFUL! Oh…
One of the first photography books I bought suggested two things for finding great places to take pictures: postcards and the zoo. Postcards? I mean, why try to find something unique in a place with which you’re not familiar? See what the pros took shots of, and use that as…
My new toy arrived today. A few thoughts from friends and family on this: Max: Of course you buy new stuff when you’re unemployed. That’s what you do when you’ve got no money coming in… [when I bought my first cellphone in 2001, right after EmployeeService went belly-up] Brian: Which…
Scooter Rage XX was the weekend before Pride, and I came specially equipped with a new L series zoom lens (70-200). I bought the new lens because of feedback from Brian about my pictures at High Rollers (gallery): Brian wanted more pictures of scooterists, less of scooters, and he was…
I didn’t say “Oh, this is SO gay!” The fellow to the right in the black/red leather teddy, fishnet stockings and hip-high red PVC boots said it, when the dance music on his float started pumping just as it turned onto Market Street to join the Pride parade. Everybody at…
My photos from Carnaval came in this Friday, and I got my first glance at them Saturday night after dinner with Susan, Anya and Christine. (photo gallery) My favorite shot (click to enlarge) of the entire parade was of this woman to the right. Her warm smile, shy turn of…
It’s been ages since TheServerSide Java Symposium (TSSJS) in Las Vegas, but I have a last bit of photography to record. The final day of the conference, Dennis and I took a hike in Red Rock Canyon (photo gallery), specifically Ice Box Canyon. Yeah, we were supposed to be at…
My photo hosting provider, smugmug.com, has added a new mash-up with Google Earth. I can set lattitude and longitude points for every photo I’ve taken, and they show up on a map on my photo site. Now, the way it’s supposed to work is that you get a GPS card…
My brand new Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM Standard Zoom Lens arrived yesterday. It is my first pro-class lens, and it is beautiful. The autofocus is super-fast, the filter mount doesn’t turn with either zoom or focus, it’s an f/2.8 rather than an f/4 (that’s two stops!), it’s sealed against…
