Missing the Vineyard's

Last of the new Oak Bluffs pier photos

Power of Kindness

From " The power of Kindness"

If we trust in the world , we can be crushed . Far to often it ends that way . But the alternative is worst still , because if we do not put ourselves on the line , nothing will happen.

I understand this all to well and continue living a much fuller life taking the chances.

Stressful struggle for life

I love photographing trees , each one , like people , have there own personality . their interaction with others and how they deal with survival . They are just more grounded then people . hug a tree today. 

Long long day

 

Was up at 3 am to go shooting with my dear friend Chris Pettet at West Chop . nothing was open for breakfast so said my good-byes and rushed to catch the 7 am ferry back to the mainland. a 4 hour drive home and after lugging everything in from the car I started working on photos.

Finally got to bed and laid there for an hour and a half , my body feeling like it just went 15 rounds with Mike Tyson but my brain running on damn the torpedoes , full speed ahead . so now I'm sitting here like it's between worlds , thinking it's been a while since I posted anything , so what the hell , here is a few photos from the week.

Art and inter-peace

http://vimeo.com/17344388

The Friendly Skies

Nikon killing local camera repair service and maybe their loyal followers

I have been a user of Nikon cameras and lenses for a long time . They have served me well and except for a few things that pains me , such as cheap cases , cheap neck straps and no image software support for the cameras but most of all I've been pretty happy with my system.

Until today . I dropped off a couple of lenses to be repaired by the same service I have used for years . One lens , the 17-35 mm needs a couple of parts that would normally cost about 5 dollars each. The job would be done in a week at a cost of 185.00 dollars.

There is just one problem .Nikon will not sell these parts to independent service centers any more. Worst yet after checking with Nikon they won't sell the parts I need even to a certified Nikon repair center. I have to ship the lenses to Nikon for repair and then wait for who knows how long to get everything back .Not to mention the high cost.

Nikon has turned into one the worst user friendly companies I have ever done business with. I was thinking about upgrading my D300 and D700 cameras , instead I'm thinking of just switching to Canon.

Way to go Nikon. 

El Nina

I was reading today that because of El Nina we will have a warm rainy summer and a warmer then normal winter next year. THANK GOD! 

thats just perfect for me . I can't wait to see conditions like below.

YES !!!!!!!!!!!

I finally finished my website , YES , it has been a long few weeks getting this up and running . Spent 27 hours the last two days just getting the slideshow to work, for some reason the photos are still degraded a little , i'm not sure why but that is another story for another day. i'm going to take the rest of this day OFF ! 


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