Not that anyone cares, but I did mention trying to put up pictures of the T5 taken with my 20D as soon as I could. Well, just so you guys know… they’re up. Just click on the picture (or any of the links in this paragraph)
As promised…
Australia
Been a really long while since I’ve posted anything here. Might as well give you an update.
Just came back from Oz yesterday afternoon. It was a wonderful vacation, I’d tell you what we were up to, but the pictures probably would do it better.
Aside from the pics, the rest were days for shopping and video marathons. Can you believe we’re suddenly “up to date” with Smallville? Three seasons within a week and now we’re planning to get/borrow a dibidi of the 4th if possible. I have to say I really like Lex Luthor’s character. I really don’t mind being him (evil tendencies and all… well, probably not the schizo moments) He’s firm and confident in whatever he does – whether wrong or right. My kind of attitude.
Of the past days
Finally had time to blog again. A lot of stuff happened starting a few hours after our November 19 album launch. We went to China the next day to follow Mom and tour Shanghai and Beijing.
Technically, we only toured Beijing since we were in Shanghai for one day (inclusive of actually arriving there) and quite frankly, I wasn’t impressed by the city.
It’s supposed to be one of the modern-est (is there such a word?) city in the country, but for some reason it really wasn’t doing anything for me. Probably because I wanted something to take pictures of – and “historicity” (which is what makes traveling with a camera a fun activity) was sorely lacking in that city.
Beijing on the other hand was wonderful! Pics are at the gallery
What really counts?
I don’t know why, but I’ve heard this phrase a lot in photography… it literally is a mantra nowadays.
It isn’t the equipment but the photographer that counts.
Now this is an uncontested fact. But It kinda irked me a bit today when I read a thread in a forum of a newbie asking an earnest question:
Which is the better camera model?
While I believe in the mantra, I don’t think using it as an answer to what I conceive as unrelated questions helps at all. Why do I think it’s unrelated?
I got myself a… whatever
I got myself a Desiccant Cabinet, also known as a Dehumidifier Cabinet, Desiccator, Humidity Chamber, Constant Humidity Storage Chamber, Environmental Chamber, Dry Cabinet or Dry Box.
A fairly simple device but hard to find here. I don’t know if it’s because there aren’t that much retailers here, or simply because people don’t know what to call it. When you’ve got descriptors like the above mentioned, you can’t blame the regular hardware store people to know what you’re talking about.
I finally found them in Handyman Galleria. There were 3 sizes in stock: one small-ish, 2-level cabinet for 4K+, a “medium-sized,” 3-level model for 8.4k+ and one large version 5 levels I think, about as tall as a chair (you literally had to set it on the floor) for 13k+.
I got the middle one. And I was lucky, they marked up the price already, but I was sold the model with the “pre-markup” price (about 7k+).