Looks like I'll be away for a bit. With the holidays coming up, things have been a bit crazy. We're heading out of town for the holidays too, and I'll be bringing my camera with me for the trip.
My next post here may be in January of 2009! We'll have to see how things go the next couple of weeks. With mandatory vacation time here at work (40 hours around the holidays, plus we are required to take an additional 40 hours, even if it means going into negative vacation balances), I'll hopefully be out shooting, or entertaining Madeline.
I've been picking up county maps though, and am planning on taking many trips to go shoot, when the weather permits. It's up to 10 degrees above zero today, so it's actually warm compared to yesterday, when it didn't even get warmer than -1 or -2. But, we pick the places we live. If I really wanted to move out, I would have long ago.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Still here.
Well, we got our first significant snowfall this week. Madeline loves it. Me, I'm not crazy about it. Bad drivers, accidents, and cold. Just not my thing most of the time. But, before you know it, it will be spring, and things will green up and be warm.
Haven't been out shooting much again. Too cold, really. I have been planning, planning, and planning about where to go and what to shoot. I've got several county maps of different counties in Minnesota, and am scouting out locations and figuring out what time of year would be best to go.
Hopefully I'll be out shooting some places this weekend. Shawn and I are planning on hitting up a couple spots on Sunday, so we'll see how that goes.
Haven't been out shooting much again. Too cold, really. I have been planning, planning, and planning about where to go and what to shoot. I've got several county maps of different counties in Minnesota, and am scouting out locations and figuring out what time of year would be best to go.
Hopefully I'll be out shooting some places this weekend. Shawn and I are planning on hitting up a couple spots on Sunday, so we'll see how that goes.
Monday, December 1, 2008
More Opportunities
Still working on the photography leads. Trying to figure out where and when I can have pictures hung up. I'll definitely be hanging more artwork in the future, but for now, I've got some pictures at the Dunn Bros. in White Bear Lake. I need to follow up on a couple of ideas, and see where it goes too.
Other news: we were in Jackson for Thanksgiving. We came back Saturday so we had a day to recuperate. We all have colds, so it isn't any fun to travel while sick. But, I did get out on Friday for a couple of hours and drove around Jackson County. I had a county map in one hand, and my camera in the other. It was pretty fun; now, I need to get county maps of about 20 other counties, and I'll be all set. I'll then be able to mark the maps with different locations of where I've shot, and where to explore, and I'll have plenty of places to go shoot.
My friend, Shawn, bought a digital SLR camera. He ended up getting a Nikon D80, which is a great camera for what he wants to shoot. When he wants to upgrade, it will make it that much easier to move into a higher-end DLSR, if he wishes to. But the D80 is pretty nice. Played with it a bit, mucked around some of the features, and it's similar enough to my D300 that it wouldn't be hard for me to tinker through it and figure it out. but he's got his entry into digital photography now, so I'll have someone more consistent to go shooting with.
Other news: we were in Jackson for Thanksgiving. We came back Saturday so we had a day to recuperate. We all have colds, so it isn't any fun to travel while sick. But, I did get out on Friday for a couple of hours and drove around Jackson County. I had a county map in one hand, and my camera in the other. It was pretty fun; now, I need to get county maps of about 20 other counties, and I'll be all set. I'll then be able to mark the maps with different locations of where I've shot, and where to explore, and I'll have plenty of places to go shoot.
My friend, Shawn, bought a digital SLR camera. He ended up getting a Nikon D80, which is a great camera for what he wants to shoot. When he wants to upgrade, it will make it that much easier to move into a higher-end DLSR, if he wishes to. But the D80 is pretty nice. Played with it a bit, mucked around some of the features, and it's similar enough to my D300 that it wouldn't be hard for me to tinker through it and figure it out. but he's got his entry into digital photography now, so I'll have someone more consistent to go shooting with.
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