I have been reading other blogs lately. It is nice to get a different outlook. The beauty of the Internet is that you can connect with anyone around the world. I recommend reading Kirk Tuck http://www.visualsciencelab.blogspot.com/ Kirk has posts over the last 3 months expounding on hardware and how so many of us are chasing the latest and greatest camera body yet we only use our cameras to post images on the web. Do you really need 24 megapixels to post this picture from this morning of the Scantic River in Enfield CT? Kirk's posts resonate with me as I fell into a little money and was thinking about moving to a larger body. This is taken with D5000 and an old manual 105mm F2.5 lens. If I upgraded to a larger Nikon it would be harder to use manual focus lenses as I would have to be careful of damaging the screw dive for the older auto focus Nikons. I understand that other view finders would be easier to focus so it is a trade off. It is like scouting players to play in the NBA some scouts focus on what a player can't do some focus on what the can do, the best teams scout what the players can do and use those strengths to put the player in a position to succeed.

This is only 2 miles from the lighthouse but the fog didn't totally close in and cover everything. This is Sunset Beach one of the few beaches on the East Coast where the sun sets.

Joyfest

My sister and brother in law have a big party in their back yard every year. My brother in law has played in many bands over the years so there is rotating cast of players coming and going.

Vacation

The Cape May lighthouse. We drove down at sunset. The fog rolled in the same time we arrived. This shot is underexposed by 1 stop to darken the sun. Almost all susnset shots are better if you underexpose them.

Ocean City

I bought a new D5000. I love it it takes great pictures out of the box. Like all digital cameras it has a host of features that you need to learn and that takes time. Here is one fron Ocean City NJ

2009

This has been neglected.

Out in the front yard

Still just test shots again no post processing other than a crop

New D80

I bought a new D80. This is from the first set. The only PP is cropping.

Testing exposure with the D70 this is 2/3rs of a stop under expsosed

It is time to breath some life back into this blog. I need to get out and take some pic's. This is a quick grab of St Patrick's from last fall when the wife and I went to NYC to see the tree at Rockefeller

Vacation

Taken in LunenbergNova Scotia with the D70 and the 50 MM f1.8