Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L

Recently got this beast of a lens, once you go L – its hard to want to shoot anything else! Image clarity is superb although this lens adds another 2 pounds to the weight of the camera. No Image Stabilizer, but with f/2.8 its all good – wouldn’t want this lens to get any heavier …

Farewell, Jude

A friend and soccer buddy from college passed away this last Monday.  It was a great shock and very unexpected to hear, and Jude will be missed greatly. Jude Moersdorf, 11/15/1973 – 3/3/2008  

HAPPY VALENTIMES DAY!

So we wake up in Kota Kinabalu at 8am on February 14th… its hot outside as its been the entire time…  we get to the airport at 10am.  Flight leaves at 11:45am, we get to Taipei after 3 hours.  1 hour layover, and a 14.5 hour flight we land in Los Angeles.  The connecting plane …

Malaysia adventures.. or trying to get there

Our fabulous Malaysian adventure has begun!  We arrived at San Jose International at  ~3PM, thanks to the driving efforts of Mary Born.  After checking in, getting through security and what not, we were all good to go. After hopping the short flight to LAX, we grabbed our bags from the bagage claim, checked them in …

Birthdays abound, and guns, and stuff

Everyone must have been gettin’ busy during the month of January, because there’s a lotta birthdays…  My bro-in-law Dave, Brian, and last, but not least… JZ.   I think that John’s was the most active as we went shooting, random shopping (where I unsuccessfully tried to get him to purchase some golf clubs), and some beers …

Rainy days…

I know what you’re thinking…  what is this splotchy colored thing on the screen?  Did a box of crayons vomit on my monitor?  No, no, its just a weather map.  It always seems so much later than it really is when its all rainy out.  If we’re lucky, the power will go out and we …

And it goes “woo woo!”

Got my BG-E2N battery grip for my camera this afternoon – stoked!  It came with two extra batteries and a charger.  Canon says you should get 2000 shots from two batteries installed in the grip, and I really doubt that i’ll hit 4000 shots before being able to recharge, but we’ll see. Now I just have to …