I got back from Winnipeg, and shot several cool thing. I took some pictures of 4-wheelers for a couple of guys I met on the beach, got some sunsets, some fire-batton twirlers, and of course my kids. Pics soon.
If you want to learn more about the D90, just about everything you could possible want is here at the Imaging Resource.
Scott Kelby has posted more group shots from the photo walk. I can’t believe no one in our group thought to get a group shot of us all.
Somehow I screwed this up, it was supposed to be posted on the 27th.
David duChemin had two posts today on learning, at his blog, and as a guest on Scott Kelby’s blog. Two things struck me, one he said to get to a workshop, and two, find a mentor. Both of these are interesting to me. Joel, our walk leader from a couple of days ago also suggested I go to a workshop. I am not sure how to pay for it yet, but I think something from the Digital Landscape Workshop Series would be great. Moose Peterson, and Joe McNally are two of the instructors. Joe wrote the book “The Moment it Clicks“, which is one of the few non technical books I bought this year.
The other is the idea of a mentor. I hadn’t thought of that before. It sounds like a great idea. The issue will be finding one.
I have seen a few posts lately about what makes the picture, the camera, or the person taking the picture. It seems a little silly to me. It’s the camera! You point, push a button, and out pops a picture. Oh, you mean a good picture. Well, that seems a little elitist. Lots of people take pretty good pictures, and some get really lucky and take a great picture, by just holding a camera in front of them, and pressing the shutter. David duChemin says that taking pictures is hard. And that we (armatures) expect great pictures by buying expensive gear, and don’t want or expect to put in lots of effort. Matt Brandon talks of his days in a store where some people would buy more expensive cameras than he could afford, when “he” was the real photographer.
This has me a little freaked out. A local Minnesotan was out taking pictures at Lamberts Landing in St. Paul and was taken aside, cuffed, given a citation, and told he couldn’t come near the area for a year! This is MNkiteman’s picture on flickr. That’s nuts. Oh yea, they deleted some of his pictures too. This discussion on flickr started out with a different story about paranoid security officers, but MNkiteman chimed in with more of his story as well. I am sure that this is all about increased security concerns over the republican national convention in early September, even more than what seems to be typical post 9/11 paranoia. It’s getting tiring, and a little scary.
I run by this location when I run at lunch. There is sometimes a tug parked there, and it looks like it could make for some interesting pictures. I keep thinking I need to check back with my camera. Maybe not.
Gizmodo has a picture up of 23 photographers firing away at the Olympics. They figure that is a quarter of a million dollars of equipment in one image. What I think is interesting is that I see only 6 of the grey L glass Canon lenses. I don’t follow the high end gear to know for sure if Canon has some of the 400/500/600 lenses in black, but it sure looks like an awful lot of Nikon shooters in that bunch. Sports used to be dominated by Canon, so this is quite interesting.
This happened earlier this spring, but I didn’t have my blog going then, and I am just getting around to posting now.
So what constitutes public property? I was wandering around work looking for things to take pictures of near by. I saw a couple of motorcycles parked at the side of a building, so I walked down a sidewalk between the Law Enforcement Center (a county building) and a parking lot. I had just taken this picture :
when a police officer asked what I was doing. I said I was just taking pictures, and she said it was private property. I politely told her sorry, I thought that the land surrounding a county building would be public. She pointed at the one arm bandit gate on the parking lot and said this parking lot was private property and you had to have a parking pass to be here. I didn’t feel like arguing with the officer, but I didn’t follow the argument, so I left.
I am starting to hear of all sorts of stories about photographers getting hassled taking pictures. Don’t even think about using a tripod. See Scott Kelby’s story here.
I got directed to PhotoPermit.org that has lots of stories and info about getting and trying to avoid being hassled by security guards or police.
There is a great PDF on a photographers rights here. Just don’t expect to be left alone for waving this paper around.
Nikon last released the D60, before that the D300, and before that the D40x/D40. I have the D40. What’s next? I am hoping it is a refreshed D80. Call it a D90. The rumors have been flying recently for a release this month, June. Nikon has released quite a bit recently, so thinking of a D90 in June seems a bit premature, but that seems to be the prevailing wind. The D80 is two years old now, so people think it is time for an upgrade. I think that Nikon has had it’s hands full taking over the bottom end of the spectrum. I think that September is more likely. Why? That is when the next big photo show is. Photokina 2008 is in September in Germany. Last year this show was where the D60 was released. It will make the D80 long in the tooth, and I am hoping for sooner rather than later, as this rumored camera is targeted as my next purchase.
So, this is a post from Aug 19, 2005. I had to repost it, because I didn’t import the old blog. It is not related to photography or computers, but on the anniversary of Busters passing, I decided to go find it from the database. I wrote this when he left for Cleveland.
How long have you known your best friend. I suppose some poeple don’t even have a best friend, but I do. I have know him for 12 years. That is a long time. I hardly know anyone other than family that I have seen on a regular basis for that long, other than my best friend. I know that he has been better to me than I have been to him. I have tried though. He has never demanded anything. I have often turned my back on him, but I always came back. He was always accepting. That is why it is so hard this time.
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