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PROLOGUE
My foray into the off-camera flash world began with a PC sync cable plus a pair of hot shoe adapters for camera and flash.
It works, but having a cable hanging off my camera gets in the way and tangles in the camera strap. The coiled wire is a spring that, like a mischievous cat, […]

My collection of Olympus photography gear has just grown:

Olympus OM-2 built in August 1976
This picture
… is just intended to be a quickie until I can take some decent product shots to fit my black background. I’m not happy with this as it looks over-processed to me. I went from a slightly overexposed image […]

Today’s post will be short (yay!) with only two pictures (boo!).

July 2nd, Day 4
We wake up and discover that we’re in a nice warm room instead of a tent, and we won’t have to spend most of the day in a car (not that there’s anything wrong with that) for the third day in a […]

My inner geek ran wild the last couple of days.

DAY 1
Let’s jump back in time about a year when I first told you about my crummy, crummy laptop. For those playing along at home who’re too lazy to follow hyperlinks (it’s, like, sooo hard!), my old Toshiba laptop decided electricity was more of a […]

I like to print my own Inkjet photos - yes, I know these aren’t as good as properly exposed photo paper photos: the printed paper is more delicate, the inks can fade (although there are test results that show the newer inks last a good long while), etc. etc. I like to do things […]

DAY 3
* Woke up to the sound of some guy swimming at 07h30.
* Worked on my PC for a bit, did some packing. Discovered too late for anything useful that it’s sunny outside. Meanwhile, I heard from my colleague in Ottawa that there’s snow everywhere and traffic accidents.
* Hunted down breakfast, changed into […]

So I wrote some stuff back on the 7th of December and I figured what with the upcoming holidays and running around and madness and traveling that I wouldn’t be writing again ’til Christmas. Especially given my track record for frequent posting. Then I had a pretty awesome week, some of which involved […]

Holy crap! Three posts in one day! I guess this means I won’t post again for what… three months?
From the hella-heli-fun department:
A few weeks ago, I gave a cow orker a ride to the local hobby shop where he bought himself a remote-controlled helicopter. The crucial, defining moment was when he brought […]

From the one-of-three department:
Well, it has been a month so of course I have gotten my hands on some new gadgets. The latest gadget acquisition is a new MP3 player. I got an iRiver H320. You can’t buy these in stores anymore, so I had to go to this really large mall […]

From the photography department:
A young man rides his bicycle across the land, capturing moments in time.
Wait, that doesn’t sound very accurate.
A not-quite middle-aged man in poor shape wheezes along on his bike, stopping once in awhile to catch his breath and maybe snap a photo or two of some random stuff.
There, that’s it! To […]