Slideshow of photos taken at concerts around the triangle.

Visit to Northern California – October 2009

Well, hello there! Been a long while since my last post so I’m taking advantage of the holiday break to go through some of the photos on my laptop, figured I would at least scratch the surface of the giant photo pile.

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How to make a fish eye lens for a…[DSLR]

Over at Instructables, user Banjomaster, has created a cool HOWTO for creating a $16 fish eye lens using some particle board, duct-tap, a lens hood, and a security peephole for doors. The tutorial is branded as being for the Nikon D90, but looking at how he made it I can’t imagine it wouldn’t work [...]

Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

Pictures taken during a trip to the Museum für Naturkunde (Natural History Museum) in Berlin, Germany.

Half-Life 2 fan made short. Brilliant.

Easily one of the best fan made shorts I’ve ever seen for any game AND it’s set to be a series? Yes, please! Not sure what motivated the creation of these master pieces, whether it be a marketing move from Valve or these guys simply like them selves some Half-Life 2.

The blending [...]

Valley of Fire

Will be heading out to the Valley of Fire for the frst time today with a friend of mine. Should take around four to five hours as it’s a little beyond Las Vegas near the Nevada / Arizona border.

Gear that I’ll be using:

Body: Canon 5D Mark II Back up Body: Canon 5D [...]

‘Unoffical’ Canon 5D Mrk II HD Demo Movie: ‘Tokyo Reality’

via Akihabaranews.com.

Gear used:

Canon 5D Mark II 14mm f2.8L II 17-40mm f4L 50mm f1.4 90mm TS-E f2.8 135mm F2.0L

Tokyo Reality (Canon 5D MarkII) from utsuru on Vimeo.

Leids Ontzet (Leiden’s Relief)

Every year on October 3rd Leiden celebrates the end of the year long siege by Spain by turning the city in one big crazy festival.

Rock on.

Photojournalist James Nachtwey’s TED Prize

“The TED Prize, an initiative of the TED Conference granting recipients one world changing wish – is asking bloggers around the world to help in making photojournalist and 2007 Prize winner James Nachtwey’s wish come true this Friday, October 3.

Nachtwey wished for help in breaking a news story in a [...]

Canon 5D Mk II announced! 21mp + HD Video love’n!

Canon.co.uk has finally announced the new 5D Mk II. It has a very nice and respectable list of new features and even better, a wonderfully low price tag. I’m really happy to see the new body is metal as well as environmentally sealed. The new 3″ VGA view screen is also very welcomed, as [...]