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it was raining,, but went out taking pictures anyway sometimes the nicest mood is rain,, and I like taking waterfalls in the rain,, here are two examples. and so,, take advantage of those moody wet raw days,, never know what you will find.

a misty rainy day,, and have the afternoon off! I am thinking I need to establish some protocol for signing/marking my framed prints,, right now,, I don't sign my work, but know I should,, I do have mixed emotions about this,, sign the back, front,, stamp, my signature is unreadable...

my pictures are hanging in hopefully high volume spot,, in a tourist town,,, Yey!! Time will tell, but I'll give it a couple of months there, and well if work sells, maybe even longer,, having a retail outlet is great, I'll have to sign some consignment paperwork on Friday. If work does...

A trip time soon,, Thanksgiving,, I'll get to bring for my kit: 14-24 zoom 24-85 zoom 80-400 and throw in some primes.. yes yes,, the 24-85 versus say the 20-35/35-70 2.8s..,,, well, for flexibility, and a bit of weight I'll have the 14-24 2.8 for an Air Museum,,,, planes planes...

Well,, I should plan on selling the next item,, winter is slowly approaching,, rise and fall of temperature, but still lots of nice days left. I mentally have to start thiinking of winter shots, usually,, I am pretty happy taking winter shots,,, but,, eventually,, I get pretty sick of all the...

I did use the new lens!,,, love it,,, Wide angles are just so useful. here is a local barn The sun was lighting it nice, and with the ultra wide, could capture the whole structure,, these old barns are fading fast! so,, got to capture them when you can.. and the details look great,, the...

Why have a high pixel camera,, well, because sometimes you can crop and still get enough detail for a decent post, here for example a shot of less then 20% of the original photo,, one that would be totally pixelated, and totally useless from my D700 or 7000, but with the D800 can still post...

I have been enjoying the 14-24,,, size nice balance on a full frame camera, focus smooth,,, autofocus fast super quiet,, sharpness - decent,,, holds its own,, having the ultra wide,, fantastic,,, do have to be careful on angle,, or for fun,, you can distort on purpose

nice,, the weather forcast is for a warm November day,, so, I clear my afternoon,, I am going to meet with a store,, for some wall space,, A nice high volume tourist area,, and a pottery place too. I have thinking of hanging my stuff for longer stretches,, and over time,, upgrade the framing...

laughs,, ok,, I could not resist,, and went out and got the 14-24 2.8,, beast.. I had 500 dollars saved,, and well,, it sets the target on how much stuff I have to sell before the credit card bill next month,, SWEET,, maybe its my age, but I just like the no compromise approach of this...

I have been exploring some of the photo sharing sites lately,, expanding,, one of my favorites but oldies is a critique site called photosig.. the good, is that people put real opinion on the shots, and,, it keeps all the pictures in order, and category, so pretty easy to find photos. plus...

I have made up my mind to buy new on the 14-24 lens,, and not used,, Why,, well the cost difference is not enough,, and if you are going to invest over 1500 dollars for a lens, then why take ANY RISK,,, go for the US lens, with the 5 year warranty. I took a test shot in the store,, and...

Well,, Nikon send a letter approving the shutter replacement for the D5000 under warranty,, Kinda funny,,, in the letter I sent I told them I pre-authorize any warranty work replacing the shutter. But,, you know how computers are now,, the customer still has to pre-authorized, which I did, via...

when I first tried this site, some hackers had grabbed the page,, so was not sure if a blog was to happen today... well,, I have been monitoring the closing price for the 14-24 on auctions, and the price is near 1600 dolars for clean copies,, so,, I am not sure the saviings versus new is...

Darn,, lost two posts so far,, guess I should have saved the spot.. anyway,, I attended a dual opening of a oil painter and a photographer friend,, I really liked the format of shariing the shots. with oil painting. Are photgraphs art,, well some sure are,, What is art,, not really sure...

I stopped by my local store, and tried on the 14-24 lens,, very nice,, it really is not that large, and nicely balances too bad they did not have the 14-35 F4 lens,, I wanted to compare the two,, but I am really really tempted by the 14-24 lens.. is it worth more, 700 dollars more...

I keep expanding my web sites that am posting, now trying 500x as a site,, similar to many others, but seems to have a better retail market channel.. Who knows,,, maybe some photos will be sold,, I am on an expansion mode lately of trying other more and more sites to share my work, on the...

well,, I now wait for the return of my D5000,, laughs,, I wonder,, if I should have called them first,, mmm I did the old fashion way of sending them an enclosed latter, along with the receipts,, yup the orginal receipts.. yeah yeah,, should have been copies,, but I trust them,, I paid a...

Hope folks had a nice weekend, mine was fairly slow,, except for the 8mm fisheye fun that I blogged about yesterday, I al really debating on whether or not to sell my 18x200 VRII lens, used maybe 3 times, brand new basically. Its a very flexible lens, so part of says, keep it for the D7000...

I sometimes forgot about my ancient 8 mm Nikkor Fisheye,, its not really an easy lens to get effective pictures, but with careful placement and use, I think you can get cool shots. Like . or you can get really cool spooky trees if you crop a bit, you can use the lens for a normal...