Photography, Tech News and Other Randomness

New House

Ben — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:37:19 +0000

In the middle of November Kate and I finally moved into a house. We didn’t buy it but we are renting it. The best part of it is all the room that we have now, there is even a finished room down in the basement which we have made the den/guest bedroom/music room. It’s nice to have a place of our own, it’s located at the end of a road so we only have neighbor’s on one side of the house. We finally have a backyard of our own and have been able to do a little grilling. One of the things that I’m really liking is that I finally have my drum’s set up for me to play. We also have a washer and dryer now so no more fighting with others to do laundry. The picture I posted here was taken after the second 6+ inch snow storm that we got in the last couple weeks of December.

A Tribute to John Williams

Ben — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:05:29 +0000

Katie’s New ‘Do

Ben — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:55:35 +0000

As most of you already know Katie decided to change her hair color so I put two photos together to show you the difference.

New Stuff

Ben — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:16:53 +0000

Today i added a new section to my blog, the photo gallery. I will put up photos that I take every now and them. The ones that are up right now I took this afternoon when I got home from work in the cemetery across the street. I believe that these are some of my best photographs to date and I like the mood that they created.

In other news I am writing this post on my brand new MacBook Pro. I’m so happy that I finally have one, now I just need to get all the programs that I use on it like Lightroom 2 and maybe Photoshop CS4 when that comes out (if I can save enough money for it).

And in even better news I am back on the day shift at Timken. It has been so nice getting up to go to work at 7 am and get home at 3 pm. I will be once again be able to enjoy my life and get involved with the theater, I can start to look for a band to play with and take lot of photos. With all this new free time I hope to have more to write about so keep checking back to see what new in the world of me and my photography.

Facebook Song

Ben — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:38:51 +0000

Maine Man

Ben — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:41:01 +0000

A Little Politics

Ben — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:03:50 +0000

Vote For Me

Ben — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:13:57 +0000

Vote for my photo!vote

I’ve submitted one of my photos to the Aperture Nature Workshops photography contest. There are four winners selected and along with a long list of prizes you get paired up with a professional photographer and photograph the Grand Tetons National Park in Wyoming. I’m not sure what chance I have but I thought it would be a fun thing to do.

Poor Xbox

Ben — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:35:14 +0000

Yesterday I sent my Xbox off to Texas for repair. Almost 2 weeks ago lightning struck somewhere very close to the apartment, I was able to save the game I was playing and turn the system off but when I went back to it a few hours later after the storm had passed I got one red light and an error code. I searched MS site for the meaning of the code but I could not find it anywhere. I happened to stumble upon it on a Xbox users forum were the same thing happened to someone else. Lightning struck and the got error code E 76 and could find it on line. They called costumer service and was told it was a dead ethernet card. So I went online and filled out the repair request forms and waited for my empty box to arrive. For some reason the UPS driver didn’t think it was safe to leave an empty box at the back door of the apartment so I had to wait an extra day because on day to they left it. I got it all packed up and headed down to the local UPS store and set it on the counter and as the guy working there was walking up says to me, “Another Xbox?” How many are being sent out at my not very big towns UPS store that the guy would recognize the box the MS sends to people to mail there Xbox’s back in.

So now I’m out an Xbox for 2-3 weeks and the sad part is Madden 09 is out shortly and I will have to wait a few weeks to get it. The only good thing about all of this is it isn’t costing me a single penny.

D700

Ben — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:11:20 +0000

After hearing rumors for the past few weeks Engadget at 12:15am is reporting that Nikon will be release the D700, I am writing this at 1:00am. It’s a 12.1 megapixel camera with Nikon’s new full-frames (FX) sensor. I would love to get my hands on one of these but with a price tag of $3000 thats something that I wont be getting anytime soon.

Nikon also will be releasing the SB-900 speed light in August, a PC-E Micro NIKKOR 45mm f/2.8 ED and a 85mm version as well. Just more stuff to get my NAS going.

(Update) Here are is were you can find the official press releases from Nikon.

D700

SB-900

Lenes