Waterfalls of Kauai, Hawaii

Red Dirt = Nice Landscape Photography

Nikon D300s Menu Settings and Thoughts

Cleaning Out The Film Fridge
Long, long ago... before the digital era... photography was done with film. (If you don't know what it is, just play along. It would take too long to explain.) Photographers used to store their film in a refrigerator (device for keeping things cool), typically with the film in plastic containers enclosed inside two zip-lock bags to keep out moisture. I was one of those people. In fact, until last night I still was. I had a whole draw of my refrigerator dedicated to film. However, with this new day a new era has dawned on, and inside of, my refrigerator. (Excuse me, I'm married now, our refrigerator.) The negative film I will keep as I still keep a device that use

Lightroom 3 Public Beta
The Lightroom 3 public beta is out and D-65 has a preview of it for those of us who don't want to install the buggy beta on our own machines: http://www.d65.com/lightroom3_beta.pdf

Band Album Art For Sale
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My Wife Jennifer
Here is a shot of my beautiful wife from a recent shoot. Normally she never, ever, under any circumstances allows me photograph her. (Yes, even though she is married to a photographer.) But on this particular day she was having one of her brain spasms which, though not unusual, were affecting a different part of her corpus callosum resulting in out-of-character behavior. If you want to send her a message and tell her to let me photograph her more often, then please post a comment to this blog post.

Nikon D300s Menu Settings and Thoughts
My final image tally for my recent trip to Europe was 3,290, nearly all of which were shot with the new Nikon D300s. Maybe about 200 to 300 were shot with the Nikon D200 when I was carrying two camera bodies around. After running it through its paces, I love this camera. It was definitely worth the investment. Everyone has talked about shooting at high ISOs with the D300 and D700, so I was eager to test out the D300s and wasn't disappointed. It really, really performs, especially when shooting at night. While I normally would not think of shooting at night without a tripod (and I did carry one around for some night shots), I also shot some night scenes of cafes in Paris