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The event was an overwhelming and resounding success, if I do say so myself (and I do!)…

Tons of great people, great music, great food and talk about some GREAT photos. I was humbled to be in such company! I only wish I knew what more people who had work in the show looked like in person so I could have introduced myself.

I will confess a vain joy whenever I saw someone linger in front of my lone entry and when the red dot showed up on the wall next to my entry indicating it had been sold that was pretty much the topper for the whole evening month!


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And for those who could not make it and are curious to know which of my photos was selected to be in the show I’ll give you this link.

Mr. Zippers in his hut


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Mr. Zippers has a fuzzy hut in his cage. It’s where he sleeps at night. Our friend Beth was over for dinner one evening and upon seeing Mr. Zippers in his hut she exclaimed:

“Your bird lives in a pot-holder!”

Before turning out the lights for the evening, we like to make sure Mr. Zippers is in his hut so he doesn’t struggle to find his way in the dark. He seems to know it’s bed time when I say “Load the hut!” “Zippers, load the the hut you little green butt!” at which point he grumbles and then enters into the hut and then pokes his head out to give me one last squawk before bedtime.

Cynthia has been unable to get the bird to enter his hut by using this command but he does it every time for me.

Odd since Mr. Zippers hates me with a birdly passion.

High Speed Glass

Got a little “pick-me-up” in the mail today. The Sigma AF 30mm f/1.4 EX HSM DC I won on Ebay finally showed up.

Happy dance!

I’d been coveting something just a bit more wide-angle than my Sony 50mm 1.4 for shooting concerts and other low light subject matter. The Sigma 20mm 1.8 was just too weak wide open. Maybe it’s in need of calibration or something, we’ll see.

I’d gone off in search of this particular lens a few weeks ago and was unable to locate one for the Sony/Minolta mount. The guys over at Camera Co-Op let me play with one on a Nikon and I was quite impressed with the sharpness and brightness of the lens and I pretty much decided then and there that I must have this lens!

The lens was delivered to my office this afternoon and as soon as I got home I did what any self-respecting, dignified adult male would do…

…I rolled around in the grass and shot pictures of wild mushrooms growing in the front yard!


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Depth of field is fun and quite controllable and the bokeh is very nice.

I’m really going to enjoy this!

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