Today is the Auckland Anniversary, so the north-half of the North Island has today off.  That’s kinda good, though the weather last night is lousy, and we’re still getting overcast skies.


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In Tauranga, it rained.

Quite a bit.  And for a long time. Apparently, the beautiful greenery comes at a price.

Went to the theatresports event - well, at least the first few hours of it, anyway.  Try as I might - I just couldn’t let go of Austin and get into working with first-time performers.  Right around the time of the second Shortland ( Read more... )

First Blog Post from NZ: http://www.boykophoto.com/2010/01/new-life-smell.html

Testing.

I am testing the "blogit" service from Movable type.

• A $1700 camera and $300 lens for video will not prevent you from getting your fingers in the shot while trying to manually adjust focus. 
• No amount of sensor size, fast lens, and high ISO combination will compensate for "It's dark out here."
• HDR is very useful in very specific situations.  But usually it just looks garish.
• RAW is the best possible, ( Read more... )

* Under Obamacare, non-addictive artificial Twitter will wean addicts off real Twitter ( Read more... )

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WHO has declared the swine flu outbreak "a public health emergency of international concern ( Read more... )