Black and white

Asian drivers, no survivors.

Chow down little dude.

The crossing

A night shot of the WDCH

So, lesson to be learned: Even with a fast lens and a reasonably fast ISO night time is best done with a tripod, especially if you are going to do HDR or the like. 

Light and glass

Went off and did a spot of night shooting last night with Super. While Super was urinating on the schrubs I got this picture.

Hockey shooting

     I went to a hockey game to do a little indoor sport shooting, I was planning on bringing flashes to light the action but realized that I did not have enought gels for correcting the light which I suspected was going to be sodium vapor (Wrong! Florescent all the way) so I decided to just shoot with a long fast lens and see what I could get.
     Conclusion, I understand why the pro's use the 70-200 f2.8 lens or better and why the D3 and D3x are the cameras for shooting sports with there hight ISO performance and speed.
     Is it time to upgrade again? No, but doing this was fun and I am not adverse to doing it again.

Liberty Ships

In world war 2 the US build liberty ships to get vital cargo across the atlantic to the allies. One of the sad things with the liberty ships was that they had a reputation for breaking in half. They were using a new techonology for ship building called welding and as it turns out they were failing along the welds.
This picture is from the SS Dominator which was a WWII liberty ship that was sold to a company in Greece who used it as a freighter and more to the point it is of a weld, a very scarry weld! Now don't get me wrong, but having a root opening that large and a joint that is not completely filled up would leed me to believe that the reports of cracking in half were true and I wonder how many of the welds on this ship looked like this.
Yes, it's a little bit of professional history that I noticed while out on a trip.