So I decided it was a good time to sell my camera while it still had some value on the used market and buy myself something new. Of course, I didn’t have the extra money needed to upgrade cameras, so I also had to sell my 200mm 2.8L lens. That’s kind of a big deal, I loved that lens … but in all honesty, I didn’t use it that much. So I bought the Canon 60D, it’s the newest Canon camera at the moment. I love it so far. It has the ability to wirelessly fire my flashes which I think is going to be a great feature for me. I tested it out last night and I’m liking it a lot. Also, this camera takes HD video, so we no longer have to leave the house with both a video camera and a regular camera. It’s going to take some practice to get the video looking good because it requires manual focusing … with some practice, I’ll do just fine I think.

My plan at the moment is do another “photo every other day” project starting the first of the year, so having a new camera is exciting.

So Daniel James Milo has come to join us. He was born this past friday at 6:30pm. He weighed 7pounds and 12 ounces and was 19″ long. Everyone is healthy and happy and starting to adjust to a new way of doing things. We’re very excited and blessed.

I’ve decide to do another “photo every other day” project for the year of 2011. I’ll be buying myself a new camera in a week or so, and I’ve been slowly buying lighting and studio equipment … so I figure it’ll be a good way to make use of all the stuff

TJ, Bekki, and Ellie came over for a quick photo shoot tonight in exchange for TJ putting some old VHS videos onto a DVD for me. We had a great night, and Abi had an awesome time with Ellie

They changed Flickr a while back. I’m annoyed now. Most of the changes are great, I like them. The problem is if you’re a non paying member, like myself. They shrunk down the maximum size viewable images to 1024 pixels on the longest side. Any images which were larger than that were automatically shrunken down to 640 pixels. That pretty much ruined all the galleries I had uploaded. I’ll be taking them down, now

My plan is to do another year long photo project, but I don’t really want to pay Flickr to get all the cool features (and needed extra space). Don’t get me wrong, the website is worth every dime they charge, it’s just that I already pay for my own web space and domain name … as well as another photo challenge website … and of course my Xbox Live subscription … so I’m already up over $150 per year fees. I don’t really want to add another $25 on top of that. I’m not sure what to do.

just messing around with current “in style” cheesy photoshop gimmicks
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I’ve wanted seamless paper for a long time … I just now got around to actually buying some.