More fun

This weekend I went to a car show with the VW club and had some fun playing with my camera. I got a hand full of good shots including this one I played with a bit to try out some artsy things.

When in Germany…

In Germany we found that the childrens TV station (Kika Lounge – kinda like Toon Network) went off the air at 9 PM and only came back on at 6 AM. The character everyone is surrounding was their headline character and starred in a bizarre 15 segment that looped all night.


We watched it for hours.

Detail

On the door of the cathedral in Erfurt, Germany. Out of all the door handles this was the only one like this.

New beginning?

My goal (and I know that putting this public makes me liable) is to put up a picture a day. No guarantee that I took the picture that day, but that is the way I’d like to go.

Here is Aeryck eating ice cream. I’m still playing with the new Nikon D700, which I love very much, and am still amazed by the results. It’s pretty cool too that I’m using a $110 50mm lens that is getting these awesome results.

NEW CAMERA!

It’s been a while since I’ve been in the mood to talk photography. That all started when the “more durable” shutter in my Canon 30D broke. After just under 8000 pictures taken with the camera it’s now going to cost me $225 to get it fixed.

I was getting tired of Canon in general being totally steamrollered by Nikon so I traded all my Canon gear in for my brand new Nikon D700. All I can say so far about it is WOW. It is so much more capable from the viewpoint of a professional, I’m really looking forward to putting it through its paces this fall when I’ll be on staff at the UNT paper.

Here is one of the first pictures I’ve taken with the new camera. Keep in mind that it was taken at ISO 6400 (extremely high) and I only ran it through the Nikon software that came with the camera. No editing.