July 25, 2006
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A New Camera!
Thank you Mom, Dad, and eBay. My MBA graduation/24th birthday present is a wonderful delight! Initially, I thought a Canon Rebel XT would rock my world until I started checking out the Nikon SLR cameras. This one is the fifth in Nikon's lineup, trailing the $4700 top model by quite a lot, but I was quite happy to find this for less than 1/10th of the price. All the lenses, batteries, and flashes are interchangeable, so whatever I spend accessorizing will carry over on the next upgrade. A telephoto with macro lens is on the top of the list then maybe a wide angle, dedicated macro, or ridiculously huge telephoto for wildlife. This is all fairly new but old for me - I grew up with film cameras and was reading about apertures when most kids were taking their first piano lessons. I don't feel like I'm entitled to this, that I've arrived anywhere.... but I do feel like taking lots of pictures.
You know me, no Photoshop tweaks whatsoever. This is straight out of the camera.
Even the sweetest, most wonderful-seeming girlfriends (see picture above) have this intense desire to put their significant others to the limit, testing them to see how much they can get away with and how much they can ask for before they hit the max. Well, Esther has found out that she can ask anything of me. Drat. Why did I not see this coming. "Hey Nick, can you dig out an escape window and install a stone wall in your spare time?" << Should have given her an automatic, "I love you, but I'm really busy." No. Nope. Nothing close. Well, I hope I learned a lesson, but judging by my last credit card statement, there's a flight out to England coming up in September that I bought for myself... At any rate, I did enjoy working with her on the project, and we did get to help out her family (they really needed the help), and I do enjoy this kind of work, strangely.
Standard click for bigger images (I'm going to stay in the habit of resizing them smaller so that people can't waltz off with a free full-size picture). Yes, I like pictures of flowers, insects, bugs, even worms, flowers, amphibians, birds, reptiles, flowers, goofy people, and surprise candids. I've got two more photo entries stashed away as private for tomorrow and the next day.
Comments (11)
it's a lovely camera ~ a wonderful girl ~ and yes, you really DO do everything she asks of you
seems like a good deal to me.
gorgeous pictures, btw. i'm loving the flower ones, especially, which have always been your strong suit. i'm a big fan of that close-up of the little lavender ones ~ too late for lilacs...phlox, maybe? and i'm drooling over your camera.
Me likey pictures! Me likey pictures!
The flower pics are very nice, though I always think "sneeze" when I see flowers.
See you tomorrow Crawford!!!
Those are stunning, Nick. Nice eye
BEN SHEETS BABY! WHOOOOO!!!
By the by, did you see the question I added to my latest post? You and all your readers should come check MY site out. I'm getting lonely over there!
And thanks for the link.
excellent pics and great job on the window well.
Wow. You forget how beautiful bugs can be til you see them in pictures.
Well I probably do ask a lot of you - I won't deny that... but you have to admit I contributed some sweat to that ditch. =) Oh & I started laughing when I went to my site and saw you had hijacked my profile picture. I guess you think you can just waltz over and change it whenever you want ... Oh wait, I guess you can since you already did.
hmm, this must be a popular entry....i give it a...8 out of 10.
Whoo. Nice camera. Very nice pictures. (I can't imagine what you'd do with the $4k camera.) Hydrangeas, right? ...The fly? Wow. Just wow.
I saw your Skype conversation. Out of curiosity, how'd you find us?? Seems to me we don't have a lot of info on our Skype profile... Funny.
Nice pics and camera. I especially like the wall since we've done similar things here this past year. Looks good-- I'll have to check to see if that idea is code here-- If so, I think I'll do it too!~
Excellent! I'm very happy for you. (and jealous of you; I have GOT to get me a new camera!
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