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I took the subway in Tokyo

May 31st, 2008 · No Comments

My second post from Tokyo. Wow. Doing some blogging now; it doesn’t even hurt yet.

I did it! I conquered the Tokyo subway! It wasn’t too hard.
Here is a quick recap of what I learned yesterday:
In the Tokyo subway systems there are several ‘lines’ such as the Ginza Line […]

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Tags: Travel · Life

Pics from Tokyo

May 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Hi,
Been a long, long while since I posted anything. Guess I got a little burned out on the whole blog - take pictures thing, so I will be doing this here and there, nice and easy. Never done anything like that in my life, I am a very hot or cold person. […]

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Tags: Travel · Life

What lenses do you want and why?

December 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

There is an interesting post over at Photography 7 that talks about what lens the author should upgrade his kit lens to:
Photography 7
Also, for Nikon cameras there is a pretty good introduction to and explanation about lenses available for Nikon cameras:
http://photo.net/equipment/nikon/
Here are the lenses I would like to get:
1. Nikon AF 50/1.8 - fast, cheap […]

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Tags: Life

The winner is Karl!!!

November 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Thank you everyone for the comments on what you think is the best camera. I voted and also had two people not connected directly with the site vote on the comments and the unanimous decision was Karl.
These were the responses from two of the judges:
“Personally, I like the first one (Karl) […]

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Tags: Life

A great tripod for under $70

November 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

Just got a new tripod from Amnova.com
It took about 2 weeks to get here. The box is large. Maybe 3’ long!

The tripod box is inside of that box. This inside box was opened and there were no instructions. That is kind of scary.

There is a bag inside of the box. […]

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Tags: Life

Mediterranean plantlife

November 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment

These are some flowers that I took pictures of while in Israel, near Tel Aviv, in the garden of a hotel.

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Tags: israel · Photography · Travel · Life

Stray cats

November 9th, 2007 · No Comments

These cats were near the beach in Herzilyah, Israel. There was also a little ‘house’ about the size of a doghouse hidden among the rocks that had food and water in it. I guess there must be some kind of effort to support these cats by either the local community or the […]

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Tags: Life

O is for Opportunity

October 31st, 2007 · 1 Comment

This is a night shot of the Dan Accadia hotel where I am staying in Israel. This is my first time going to Israel and it is because I am fortunate to have a good job that lets me do these things.
In the past two years I have been to Singapore (twice), Germany […]

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Tags: alphabet pictures · israel · Travel

A rare moment

October 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Today I had the chance to watch the sunset here in Herzilyah. It is probably the last one I will see since I am teaching the next three days. It was awesome. One of the things that makes me want to be a good photographer is that I want to be […]

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Tags: israel · Photography · Travel · Life

The Beaches of Herzilyah, the ruins of Apoloniya

October 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Got here Saturday afternoon. It gets dark very early here. The sun was setting at 4:30 pm and by the time I got checked into my hotel it was very dark. Sunday morning I walked north along the beach, looking for some ruins that I had read about. I am […]

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Tags: israel · Travel