Erika’s Shoot
Jun0
Did a mini shoot today for Erika’s comp cards. She is new to the modeling scene, however I loved her movement and confidence. I’m sure she will sucess in near feature.
Band Photo
May0
Found this UNT marching band photo I took couple years ago when I just started doing photography. I developed the image myself, and printed it on the Agfa Semi-Gloss Fiber paper. The image qualiy of a fiber based B&W photo paper is unsurpassed by any digital inkject prints. Too bad, Agfa went out of business, and the chemical darkroom process has become incresingly expensive nowdays.
This is a scan from the fiber print.
Deer Visit
May0
Two deers (a young one and an older one) just popped out of the woods near our house. This area is frequently visited by raccoons, possums, deers, all kinds of birds, and stray cats.
China ChuZhou LangYa Mountain Temple Fair
May0
The fair is held once every year in spring time. Hundreds of thousands of people come to celebrate and enjoy live performances and to pay their respect to Buddha. Order, cleanness, and trash are always issues at major events in China, as you can see from a lot of photos…
Hit thumbnails for more photos from the fair.
People waiting to buy ticket, no lines were ever formed.
Rabbit for sale at the fair
Corn chips for sale, made from a tractor motor.
Balloons for sale
Special boat made of cheap polyurethane material that spins and afloat on water.
Performers.
A typical chinese restroom.
My Review of Kingston Technology 32 GB, 133x Elite Pro Compact Flash Memory Card
May0
Slow start up time due to large capacity
Pros: Reliable Performance, Writes/Reads fast, Large Capacity, Great Value
Cons: Slow Initial Startup Time, Slow in-camera formating
Best Uses: Storing images/multimedia, Portable images/multimedia
Describe Yourself: Professional
Primary use: Business
This 32GB 133x Kingston have it’s good and bad.
I’ll start with the bad: The card’s initial start time is very slow compare to smaller size CF cards (8gb, 16gb). It means when you put the cf card in your camera slot, the camera would take at least 5-7 seconds to initialize with the memory card (CF indicator on and camera freezes for about 5-7 seconds) The card is also very slow if formated in-camera. It takes around 10 seconds to format the card in camera, even though what the camera do is just a quick format(smaller size CF cards would do this in 0.5-1.5 seconds).
Sometimes the preview would also take a bit longer to come up when used with this CF card.
The good side: write and read speed on this card is very good, almost as fast as sandisk extreme iii when I was downloading images and doing writing tests to the card. CF cards are in general very reliable and rarely breaks.
The card was tested on both a Nikon D70 and D700 cameras.
I would recommend it for non-critical work where timing and slow startup time is not an issue. For professional works, I’d stay away from it and choose Sandisk or Lexar instead.
Untitled
May0
Sometimes I would stare at an airplane flying high, and begin to respect human intelligence. How did we evolve to the point where we are at now, from an organic single cell? How do we calculated precisely and landed the Cassini-Huygens into Titan’s atmosphere? I would leave those questions remain to be answered to our dearest scientists, and enjoy the very moment I am at now. But one thing you must know and remember, that is we have to work together as a team to protect our environment from been destroyed. So we, as human beings, and the lives that live on this planet could have a peaceful and enjoyable life span…
