My Wish List

There are many items on my wish list, a few of which I am in the process of researching and purchasing, but this item is one that I don’t know when I will be able to purchase.

It is a tiny Nikon camera that is actually a USB flash drive. The little lens comes on to reveal the USB key. How awesome is this?! A friend of mine got one from a Nikon rep when they came to introduce a new line of cameras to the store he works at. He showed it to me and then told me that it can’t be purchased from Nikon yet. You can get similar things from other places but they aren’t Nikon cameras. So for now I will wait patiently until Nikon wishes to release this to the general public.

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SOOC Sunday #2

Above is the screenshot from Bridge showing the Before and After of today’s SOOC feature.

This was a shot I took of a “ferris wheel” (it is actually called the Skyview of something like that) in Niagara Falls. It is a long exposure shot done at night (f18.0, 6.0 seconds, ISO 200) that I was actually quite happy with straight of the camera. I cropped it down to 16”x20” as that is the size of print I wanted, but it wasn’t actually necessary as the original composition worked quite well. I converted the image to black and white. This was something I struggled with for a little while as I actually found the slight blue colours around the edges of the image very interesting, but the crisp whites when converted to black and white won over in the end.

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Niagara Falls

I spent the past few days in Southern Ontario for business meetings and at night took the opportunity to visit some of the tourist attractions down there and of course made a stop at Niagara Falls. It was a little cold and windy, but well worth it, in my opinion. I just love how they light the falls at night. I waited around until the lights changed to variations I really liked and I think this version is my favourite.

These are the American Falls. The Horseshoe (Canadian) Falls are normally my favourite, but this night the straight, American ones really caught my eye.

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