Domo--Kun

By now it should be apparent that I don't update this journal very often.  Sometimes I can't think of anything worth saying here that I don't say on my other journals, so I don't. In the past two weeks I've had a change in my photographic career.  Sadly I'm not going professional or anything, but I've been forced to upgrade my camera due to a sad accident. When I was in Guatemala on a missions trip with my church, I used my Canon S2 just about every day.  I documented our flight there and all of the steps of our construction of a 10' x 14' house for a local family.  I took pictures of the Vacation Bible School we ran there and of our advent

Since I don't write here very often, I thought I'd just give a brief update on what's been going on. Since my last post, I've moved to another city that seems like it should have a lot to take pictures of.  The sad thing is that I no longer have as much time to take pictures.  I've shot a few series around town, but nothing turned out spectacularly.  The few shots I've posted have come from my weekend outings, either with my community group or with the guys from work. An update on my camera, I've been looking at upgrading to a Nikon D80 or Canon XTi, but they're both out of my price range for the time being.  For now I've just been trying t

Well here I go disappearing for a month at a time (I look at all my watches every day, I swear!) and then coming back with a huge amount of pics.  I can't believe it took 30 minutes to post all of them.  Anyway, since I've been gone, I went to the Fayetteville AirFest, shot a few flowers around the house, and captured a bunch of fireworks shots at the local festival on the 4th.  I decided to make them a fireworks series since I had so many turn out wonderfully. My favorites are definitely the Tesla subseries.  I'm not sure how I got the timing right on my camera to shoot a firework just as it explodes and then capture it streaming out.  I mo