December 28, 2011 – 6:42 pm
Macro photo of fiber-optic Christmas treeAnother Christmas holiday has come and gone. This one went fairly smoothly. The requisite relatives all got visited and gifts exchanged, cookies and turkeys baked, and extra calories consumed! My big gift from Santa (myself, lol) was the Tamron 90mm macro lens I’ve been craving. It was expensive, but so [...]
December 20, 2011 – 10:40 pm
re: “I just can’t bring myself to pay over $400 for this…” – uh, I just did! Amazing what the imminent arrival of Christmas AND the expiration of a $50 rebate can do to an otherwise tightwad like me. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee – Merry Christmas to me! Lots of bug & flower pics for you my loyal [...]
December 19, 2011 – 5:51 pm
Tamron AF 90mm f/2.8 Di SP A/M 1:1 Macro Lens for Pentax Digital SLR Cameras All I want for Christmas is these 2 new lenses! The first is a full 1-1 macro by Tamron. The other is a “Fast 50″ by Pentax that opens wide up to f1.4! So, if any of you sugar-daddys / [...]
December 17, 2011 – 5:20 pm
photo: “The Guardian“Military given go-ahead to detain US [citizens as] terrorist suspects without trial Americans can be arrested on home soil and taken to Guantánamo Bay under a provision inserted into the bill that funds the US military. me:This is so unconstitutional and un-American in so many ways! Why do we continue to put these [...]