Weekend fun at the Bronx Zoo
We
made our (almost) yearly trip to the Bronx Zoo yesterday, and it was
amazing as always. I'm a sucker for Zoo photography, and I always take
too many photos, but this time I had good reason. My awesome camera
(it's a
Canon
PowerShot A75 if you're curious) has a great zoom lens,
takes wonderful pictures,
and gives me lots and lots of control. I'm spending most of my time in
manual mode now forcing longer exposures than the camera would choose
itself and then taking 5 or 6 shots until I get one in perfect focus
without any motion blur. It really makes the colors pop and gives me
lots of detail when I get it right.
The camera also allows me to switch to manual focus, and I've been
bringing it
right down to 5cm and taking some amazing macro shots (as
you
might
have
noticed).
I'm going to queue up a few of the best ones here in the blog, but I've
thinned the herd a bit already and posted the better ones here
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Remembering New Orleans
One year ago this weekend
Sara and I were finishing up our honeymoon, escaping New Orleans just before a storm hit.
We'd learned a lot over the course of our stay there and had seen how the city had been built
to withstand (and rebuild after) storm after storm.
Exactly one year later, New Orleans is getting slammed with a category 5 hurricane, possibly
the most destructive in US history. I was
absolutely unaware until Wil sent his
mojo their way tonight. Good luck New Orleans. Here's
hoping everyone and all the wonderful history are still there in the aftermath.
"This is going to quickly go from a weather story to one of the biggest news stories in the
world, certainly the biggest either of us has ever covered... Everyone's saying "I hope I'm
wrong" when talking about this storm. The truth is that we've dodged this bullet so many
times before, this is going to be the one." -WWL TV, streaming live
here
...conditions are
already deteriorating along portions of the central and
northeastern Gulf Coast and will continue to worsen through the
night. Maximum sustained winds are near 160 mph with higher gusts. Katrina
is a category five hurricane.
Wikipedia's quickly evolving entry on
Hurricane Katrina
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We
made our (almost) yearly trip to the Bronx Zoo yesterday, and it was
amazing as always. I'm a sucker for Zoo photography, and I always take
too many photos, but this time I had good reason. My awesome camera
(it's a Canon
PowerShot A75 if you're curious) has a great zoom lens,
takes wonderful pictures,
and gives me lots and lots of control. I'm spending most of my time in
manual mode now forcing longer exposures than the camera would choose
itself and then taking 5 or 6 shots until I get one in perfect focus
without any motion blur. It really makes the colors pop and gives me
lots of detail when I get it right.
