Tien and I wandered again through golden gate park, this time having a good talk about some similar experience we'd had in life. We came across this group if kids partying on the lawn and it was a relevant illustration to the conversation. It was such a beautiful day in the park, nice to see everybody out enjoying it.

After three years I managed to find identical hardware and firmware versions as my backup drive that got fried before my first trip to Asia. I transplanted the controller card and it spun right up allowing me to see all my lost data. So so happy!

My wife made oatmeal cookies for the first time tonight.

As an exercise in sleuthing, using just this photo, can you deduce what continent she's originally from?

In an age where travel is done by foot and rocket, and cars are nowhere to be found...

Tien rocking the IR D70 in GG park… but then the battery died.

First post from the Nikon D5100 that I picked up to hold me over until I get the D800. So far I like it much more than the T3i even though it's basically the same camera. Must be Nikon...

First post from the Nikon 85mm ƒ/1.8g.

Today marks a new milestone for me. I shot Nikon for 15 years, then switched to Canon to see what it was all about. After shooting for nearly a year, I've decided that Canon is over-hyped, and I simply don't like it as much as Nikon. With that, I'm switching back to Nikon, and doing so in style. This morning I picked up a Nikon D70, the first model of DSLR I ever owned, which had been converted to IR by Life Pixel. Like so many other people I'm waiting for my D800 order to be fulfilled, so this D70 should keep me occupied until then. I also picked up a 45mm PC-E ƒ/2.8 tilt-shift lens, which is something I've been missing since I got rid of my PC-E 24mm ƒ/3.5. As of today I'm back on Nikon, doing what I love, not just exploring the alternatives. So here's a photo of my lovely wife with light eyes and blue hair.

Tien and I wandered again through golden gate park, this time having a good talk about some similar experience we'd had in life. We came across this group if kids partying on the lawn and it was a relevant illustration to the conversation. It was such a beautiful day in the park, nice to see everybody out enjoying it.