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been very busy this week. it’s nice. i feel like i’m being useful. i’ve been writing automated smoke tests to be run after deployments to make sure the code still works. nothing glamorous but it’s more interesting than writing test plans and carrying them out manually. tomorrow i’ll be heading to my alma mater for [...]

i just never feel like sitting down and writing something. i should probably treat this like twitter or whatever and just spit things out as i get them. so to make up for it here are some photos i’ve taken recently. as you can see i haven’t gotten out much. i’m trying to remedy that [...]

i got myself an AF lens.  it’s not the nicest, but the nicest cost about 3x as much.  image quality is nice, the only caveat is i need a lot of light, which makes it the perfect walk-about lens.  good thing it was nice today.

i need an AF lens. i noticed that some of my pictures were really noisy and i thought it was the camera, but no, it’s just me getting things slightly out of focus. also, this camera is really fast. luckily this was at the infinity focus range and i was able to catch it, but [...]

i went out to buy a DSLR today and ended up with more than i bargained for. as i’ve mentioned before i wanted to join the digital revolution because developing film is expensive. i’ve been trying to decide for a while between the nikon d40 and the nikon d80. i’d been leaning towards the d80 [...]

after finding a roll of B&W film i shot in college, getting it developed and finding that some of them were actually ok i’m getting back into photography.  i have a Nikon FG-20 that my mom gave me.  it’s a beginner’s setup, which is nice for me.  i went to glazer’s friday and picked up [...]