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For my city outing,,,, choosing the D800, 24-85 (wish it was the 24-70 2.8) and my 80-400. as a bag, I am using a converted Camel back water bag,,, If I am not using my cameras, then it just looks like I am carrying water, nothing of real value, and well, its nice and small. the bag is...

City day tomorrow,, which is a nice change,, well big city, I live already in a small city, but not the same as a large city, with hustle and bustle, I am not there with any real agenda, just got a chore to do,, so,, might as well bring the camera and see what can be found,,, keep is the...

Summer is flying so fast,,,, almost mid point,, hard to get my mind wrapped around the speed of the events. Finally,, the weather pattern seems to be shifting a bit,, and longer breaks of sun between the rain,,, which for me,, makes a huge difference. sky and clouds are an interesting topic...

did my monthly photo back up last night, I know I know... automation, etc etc,, but I still do the plug in two external drives, and manually copy the folders. background activity,, and well,, it is not hard, I work off a laptop, so,, its capacity is about 6 weeks of photos.. and then, I...

ah,, such a nice day,, been a while it seems that it was a nice day. here is a end of day shot . a nice moment,, lone person on the raft. and then the next day,, had one of those orange balls suns.. In both cases, just a touch of human,,, which for me,, is what makes the two...

yesterday,, I went as far as telling my nephew to go back out and swim to the raft,, the sun was setting,, really nice light streak, arrange / line up,, so the light streak was just to the right of the raft, and then had him do some dives,, into the streak, Is it a setup,, well sure,, because...

slowly,, slowly,, the lens disorder is starting to surface,, the one,, that thinks ... mmmm one more. I really like the 24-85,, but I really had troupble focusing in manually during the fireworks, those G style free floating focos rings are just so sloppy,, not in issue in daylight, but when...

Happy 4th of July for those in US, May Freedom ring.. speaking of which, it was so humid and such, that the fireworks were really really smokey,, very different than any I photgraphed before, Often they were buried in smoke, kinda cool, but not was I was expecting. kinda interesting...

Ah Fireworks tonight! Ill brave the crowds,, with the camera and tripod, find a spot, need un obstructed,, and such I leave it manual,, and then cover with my hand the lens, and and exposure the old fashion way, but lifting the hand, I'll even combine mutlipe bursts over time,, can be a...

My nephew is in seven heaven with the D7000 and his new 70-200 2.8 VRII lens, and I am like wow, such a package for a 16 year old! but he does work, and paid for the lens, so, more power to him, So,, I get to enjoy his progress, and continue to offer up gentle suggestions/hints, but got to...

on my viewer, this month's assigment winner seems to be formatted wrong, so it is covering up the blog entries.

Well, time sure flies, I just got my 1 year notice of being on Nikonites site for a year! Seems like yesterday as the song goes. I have enjoyed the first year, reading entries, tips, and now my daily blog. My gear has added a few things during the year, such as the D5000 (due to a tip here on...

put all my cameras in the storage shelf,,, they were lying around the house,, today is a cleanup day,, you know how it is,, clutter builds up, garage is a mess, outside looks like a jungle, and it starts to get on your nerves so,, no play day,, clean clean clean,, chop chop, hack back the...

So much rain,, starting to feel like I got to build an ARK, I dd get to see a loon, which I find to be such an wonderful bird, how sad the world would be to no longer have their soulful cry on a foggy day,, I got fairly close to this one,, used my 200 mm F4 lens for a quick photo, it...

I have begin to like the little Coolpix waterproof camera,,, well for those occasions that I just would not feel comfortable with my gear, like leaning over in a kayak,, taking macro pictures,,,, one slip,, and there goes 4K,, so,, the coolpix in macro mode,, 16 Meg, is not bad, won't know...

Yes,, another very cool number,, on well a fairly cool day,,, sitting on a beach,, internet might fail any second,, amazing to get any signal at all, I finnally got the elusive loon with my D800,, such a majestic bird, only one per pond,, so,, not the most common site, This time, I snagged...

Silly me,, here I have tripods lying all over the place, including small travel ones, and of course I did not have one on my morning hike, and wow,, with all the rain, the small streams were raging,, and the small waterfalls were big ones, plus with the overcast sky, perfect conditions to...

numbers,, 109,, wasn't there a PT boat called 109,, maybe's President Kennedy's boat if I remember right. I bet a lot of us built models back in the day, and the PT boat 109 was a standard build. Too, bad in some ways models building has gone the way of sniffing glue... just joking, but yielded...

Sometimes,, its just fun to be silly,, I took this Elvis picture,, and I like to add him in improbable places as potential Elvis sightings. Elvis,,, King of the Rock...... not really for anyone but my own fun,, who knows.... could be elvis on the Rock.... ​

My nephew has the photography itch bad now,, I got him started with a D70,,, the perfect learning camera, and frankly a very nice camera in its own right, the upgrade bug already hit,, as he took nicer and nicer pictures, and started to print, so,, he is so excited to move up to a D7000, as he...