This blog has been dreadfully quiet recently. That’s because I had an incredible five weeks away from work around our third anniversary. I promised Laura that since we were not able to properly celebrate our anniversary the first two times because I was busy with work, we’d do something fun to completely get away from the world this year. We spent several weeks seeing my family in Texas — the best state in the Union, and then spent a week in the Caribbean on a cruise.
Click on these pictures below to be taken to the newest photo albums on our website. They may load slowly, but they are there. You can also click here to see the main 2009 photo page. Now that we’re back home, it’s time to check back into reality.
One note about these pictures. Most of the over 2,000 that were taken in five weeks, were shot on the indomitable Nikon D40. If you don’t have one yet, you might still get one on e-Bay. It is over three years old — a lifetime in the digital age, which means it will be replaced by something most likely not as nice as the D40, and certainly not as great a price as $450 with lens included. Point-and-shoots are fun, but with just a little more effort, you can carry a small DSLR like the D40 and get vastly better results, more keepers, and preserve more memories. Read why you don’t need more megapixels than what the D40 has here. With 1/500th of a second flash sync, I popped on a small flash (the SB-400) and got much better results than the dinky pop-up flash. Sure, I have nicer cameras, but if I dumped the D40 rig in the ocean, at least I wouldn’t lose half a fortune. Do you have your D40 yet?