For the next few days, I’m gonna be posting some pictures from last year that I never got to show you. Actually my wife didn’t even get to see them yet. heheh! So right now, I am processing them. I guess it’s better late then never huh!? hahaha!
If you were following me on Twitter and Facebook last summer, you would remember that I drove my family to Georgia so she and Dylan can spend the month of July with her family while the hubby (me) was back in New York working, paying the bills. You would think I would have all the time in the world to hang out with my friends. Well not really…. cuz my car was in Georgia. Delta was nice enough to take me home, of course I had to drop a few bills for it..
I headed back to GA first week of August, but I didnt want my vacation to be just driving up and down. Instead of driving on I-85 and I-95 back home. We decided to take a different route and do some sightseeing.
Driving up and down Shenandoah National Park was totally an amazing experience. We even got to see a black bear off the road. Too bad I only had the 16-35L with me, so i wasn’t able to snap a shot . We did get to visit some amazing places while in Shenandoah. Places like Shenandoah Caverns; American Celebration on Parade; The Yellow Barn and the Virginia Safari Park which is located in Natural Bridge, Virginia. The Safari park was a HUGE hit, especially for Dylan. He really enjoyed it.
Enough reading, time to see some images from the trip…. please be patient if the images is still loading on your system. There are 40 images total.
My wife Amanda is also a photographer. She’s not all about having the best camera or lenses in her bag. She will use whatever is available. For her, it is about the moment and not about how sharp or correctly the image is exposure. She normally carry her little Canon PowerShot SD850 IS point and shoot everywhere she goes. Its light, compact and fits in her handbag. Last week I decided it was time for an upgrade. As we all know, the shutter lag on a point and shoot can be very annoying, especially when we are trying to capture Dylan, who wouldn’t stop for 1 second to have his pictures taken. I search and search and came up with the Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3. This camera is nice. I got it in blue. Oh and guess where I got it at?? My favorite camera store Adorama. And I had to honor to meet a very good man, Joel Meisels. Anyway, here are a few spec that got me interested.
25-300mm
10.1 megapixels
movie/motion mode in 720p (AVCHD Lite HD)
The ISO can go as high as 6400
it has an optical Image Stabilization
3″ LCD screen….
and have lots of pre-set mode to play around with.
We, l meant she is still testing the camera and playing around with it. I did use the movie mode at the Apothecary Hymns show last week for the first time. Note: The three images on that blog were taken with the band’s camera, Canon Powershot G9. Only the Video clip was done with this Panasonic DMC-ZS3. if you are interested, you can see the 2 minutes clip here. I didn’t change the setups – only using default or whatever the camera was setup were when I opened the box. Right now I am happy with it…. I mean my wife is very happy with it.
if you interested to learn more about the camera she has.. here’s the direct link on their website. Panasonic DMC-ZS3
Look what came in the mail today!!!! WOOHOO!!! YAY!!! My prize that I won from Kevin Kubota over the Christmas holiday week. I was so surprised when William Eng informed me that I have won something…. Ya, its an awesome feeling to know you are the winner. What made this even awesome is the fact that I was also giving prizes away. I guess its God way of saying Thank you to me. Thanks Kev.
Time to make some albums and get some images for printing.
Last Friday, my mother was nice enought to watch Dylan for another 6 hours, so my wife and I can watch Apothecary Hymns’ first show of the year. We haven’t seen these guys ever since Dylan was born. Man! LOVE their new tunes.
If you are interested, here are their website info:
I just wanted to let you all know that I’ve been pretty busy working on some things. In a few weeks (most likely on Chinese New Year, which is also Valentine’s Day), I will be launching a new website. This website will have a new URL (web address); a new logo; a new design; adding some new services I will be providing this year; and will be mentioning some projects I will be working on this year. Of course with all this new ideas, it only means I will be mightly busy branding myself. Fun! Fun! Fun!! 2010 will be a good year for me and for my family.
