England Photos

Well, actually it should be Great Britain Photos since we traveled to England, Scotland, and Wales.  Anyway, here's the link to my photos: www.blackburnimages.com/albummaster.aspx?g=britain2008

You can also check out my recap of our travels at the following blog: pauluk2008.blogspot.com

Enjoy and leave me a comment if you feel inclined!

Europe photo kit

Going to England for 13 days and here's what I'm taking photo wise.  You can read about my travels at my UK 2008 blog.

I don't want to be bogged down with a lot of equipment or big backpack of gear as we'll be traveling mostly by train and having to carry everything to our lodging each evening from a train station.

Nikon D200 body (without battery grip)

Nikon 18-200mm VR lens - not fast, but a great "walk around" lens that covers the gaumut.

Nikon 12-24mm DX f4 lens - when I need a bit more than the 18mm.

Nikon 50mm f1.4 lens - for inside when I need the "speed" of the f1.4.

Nikon SB400 flash - nothing fancy, but small and light weight.

2 extra batteries (3 total) - Nikon EN-EL3e with a charger.

Compact Flash cards - two 8 GB cards and one 4 GB card.

3 sets of NiMH AA batteries (12 total) with charger.

All the above carried in a Lowepro Slingshot 200 AW bag.

Manfrotto 724B Digi tripod with ball head.

Laptop - Lenovo x61s with 320 GB 7200 rpm harddrive, Windows Vista Premium, Lightroom 2.0.  It seems to be a great travel laptop, but just wish it had a built in CD drive! Also will boot to Ubuntu (Linux) if I need a quick boot just to access the Internet.

16 GB flash drive that will be my backup drive.

I'll let you know later how it all works out!

Picture of the Week - November 30, 2008

"Wind" - I went for a hike at Radnor Lake State Park on Sunday afternoon and after spending some time waiting on the wind to die down to capture some nice golden leaves in the midst of the dark tree trunks I decided to join the forces of nature rather than fight them. I experimented with slow shutter speeds and random camera motions. This is one of the better images I was able to capture and it reflects some of the emotion that the grey, damp, windy day evoked during my walk around the lake.