March 14, 2006
Yoiks and AWAY!
filed under: Idle ChatterAnd now for some pre-emptive photoblogging:
Tomorrow we leave for four days in Costa Rica, for my cousin's wedding. The wedding will look something like this, though this is not their wedding. Obviously. If it was their wedding, we'd have missed it and would be going to Costa Rica for no reason (not that that's a bad idea anyway):
Here is the Costa Rican flag:
Here is Costa Rica:
We'll be staying in the middle for two nights, and then on the left for two nights.
Here's one of the famous sites in Costa Rica, Arenal Volcano, to which we will not be going because it's too far away from where we're staying:
And, last but not least, here's a picture of the camera I'm going to use to take pictures of the actual wedding we're going for and the things we actually see while we're there:
...which my lovely wife got me for my birthday. (Or rather: approved the purchase of. For my birthday. Which is still two months away. But we're going to Costa Rica now, and it didn't make sense to go to Costa Rica and THEN get a nice new camera).
I had such a fast and furious WANT IT about the camera that I didn't even get to write a Weekly Want-It entry about it. Suffice it to say, I was using the Digital Photography Review link an awful lot the last few days. I almost got a Canon Digital Rebel XT, but the hand grip is too small and it hurts to hold for more than a minute at a time. Then I almost broke down and sprung for a Canon 20D because it's big and fancy and would have made me feel big and fancy. Then I found out Nikon offered the D50 with a regular lens AND a big zoom lens for the same price as the XT and way less than the 20D. So I bought it.
Our flight out tomorrow leaves at 5:15am. Which means if we're going to take the usual "two hours in advance" advice for international flights, we have to leave our house at about 2:30am this morning. With a toddler. For a two hour wait at the airport and a five and a half hour flight. Wish us luck!
Posted by rjt at March 14, 2006 04:32 PMSo can I borrow your old camera to practice on? Being you have that fancy new one and all and I am still mulling (four years now and mulling) about which one I should get.
Have a great trip.
xoxo,
Your Mama-San
gift---good
gadget gift---better
gadget gift vacation---very better
enjoi!
perj
Posted by: perj at March 15, 2006 01:19 PM[bugs bunny]bon voyagee![/bugs bunny]
i've been into slr fim recently - got a "zorki 4" from the USSR (mfg sometime around 1968), and have been shooting & developing on Ilford b/w 100. finally set up the enlarger the other night, and it's a real blast doing the whole chemical printing thing.
my guess is that you'll be doing some chemical processing of your own down south - please give my regards to the dark diablo of tequila. (and, if you think of it, he still owes me 20 bucks. long story. )
White. A blank page or canvas.
The challenge: bring order to the whole.
(As he continues to speak, the white stage is transformed into a park on the island of La Grande Jatte. Trees descend onto the grass; a bottle glides into view; a cut out couple appear in the distance. The lighting gives the impression of early morning.)
Through design.
Composition.
Tension.
Balance.
Light.
And harmony.
Holy crap it took me 2 read-throughs to realize that the "David Lamb" entry was real and not Spam Art! Mr. Lamb, a little advice: bloated language & Sondheim quotes do not a comment make. Unless of course you are a freshman theatre major at a small liberal arts college, in which case, good luck with the whole bi-curious phase you're about to enter.
Posted by: David Aji at March 16, 2006 01:41 PM
parse deeper, twit.
I've been on the internets since you were in GUI diapers.
You may now go rejoin the borg. I'm sure they've missed your striking originality.
DL
Posted by: david lamb at March 17, 2006 09:50 PM
I have repented me of this flame and i do abjure it. yea, verily. it was a moment's passion, inflamed by flu and other darke ill-feelings.
[contrition]mea culpa![/contrition]
only good vibes,
dl
Posted by: lambkin at March 22, 2006 03:40 PM