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Visit to Northern California – October 2009

Aaron — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:16:18 +0000

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]

Aaron — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:40:27 +0000

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

Aaron — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:20:08 +0000

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

Half-Life 2 fan made short. Brilliant.

Aaron — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:32:52 +0000

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

Aaron — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:07:36 +0000

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’

Aaron — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:30:39 +0000

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)

Aaron — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:12:37 +0000

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

Aaron — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:47:19 +0000

“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!

Aaron — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:31:18 +0000

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 [...]

Photo of the day!

Aaron — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:41:14 +0000

A photo I took while patronizing the Szechenyi Bath has been featured on budapestdailyphoto.com for today, Sept. 8th. Very cool.

budapestdailyphoto.com/index.php/2008/09/08/szechenyi-bath/