This is very cool. It's how Canon makes their lenses, using the 500mm f4.0L IS USM lens as an example.

If you ever wonder why *good* camera lenses are expensive...well, this will answer your question.

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/tech/l_plant/f_index.html

Hippo Birdee whitemare!

Just because I *have* to repost it, because I'm SUCH a sucker for fuzzy babies, especially the feline kind....

( Give into teh cute... )

I was re-organizing the multi-purpose (jadecat9 only room) that serves as a meditation room, library, and small studio, as part of the New Year's cleanup ( Read more... )

Much thanks to abditus, who posted this in a comment. I'm C&P'ing here for future note, because you never know when websites go down.

( Eggnog Recipe courtesy Alton Brown, 2005 )

Happy Whatever-You-Celebrate-At-This-Time-0f-The-Year...
(how's that for religious agnosticism? LOL

A photo for today...

Morrwyn


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I'm such a sucker for my cats.
Plus, they make great practice for the new camera. LOL

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HAH!I conquered those damn brownies. Some modifications to recipe, and I'm all good. I did manage to use up almost all the chocolate I bought for the brownies. There's at least 12oz of chocolate in those brownies ( Read more... )

I needed some stock photography for my website. Nothing much, just an image for my photo journal is what was required. I created a small set up with a dictionary and my glasses. I tried to add a pen to the composition, but it didn't quite work out for me. The lighting is a bit flat on this one, but it's pretty clear. I might redo this one a little ( Read more... )

The past week, I've been revamping the website a little bit (something I tend to do every year). This year, the changes were small. I made a better looking splash page, and cleaned up a bit of the rest of the site to be more readable (I hope).

WyldFire Studios

If you catch any errors (or are inclined to find errors), please let me know.

Danke!