33rd Wedding Anniversary

The 33rd Wedding Anniversary does not have any traditional materials or Symbols associated with it. Whew! No gifts required. But a Contemporary or Modern 33rd anniversary gift has a theme of Amethyst. Hmm... lets keep even that quite .. .

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, f2, 1/160sec (SB900, SB600 and pop up Flashes)

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, f5.6, 1/160sec (SB900, SB600 and pop up Flashes)

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, f5.6, 1/160sec (SB900, SB600 and pop up Flashes)

Off camera flash setup below. 1 x Nikkor SB900 1 x Nikkor SB600 and D300 Pop Up Flash for fill in all at 0.00 compensation.

Diagram via Stobox for the iPhone

Nexus One - Close, but no Cigar

While the Nexus One gained a great deal of attention for its announcement analysts seem to be in agreement that they still believe Apple's iPhone has the advantage, thanks mostly to the resounding success of the App Store. Apple announced this week that more than 3 billion apps have been downloaded for the iPhone and iPod touch. Disappointing as competition is needed. On the day of the Nexus One's launch Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs is quoted as saying “The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”

Unfortunately this is no iPhone killer.

Crepe Myrtle

Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, f2, 1/1600sec

Happy New Year 2009

Life is a process of becoming.

A combination of states we have to go through.

Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it.

What you are is what you have been.

What you’ll be is what you do now.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow - Buddha et al

AVATAR 3D - Well it was interesting but . . .

Very nice imagery but not the ground breaking leap it's touted to be. The storyline is trite, and the characters are only moderately developed.

When you consider films of this genere like Final Fantasy from 2001, which was beautifully rendered and completely computer generated, even the voices. No human morphing, voiceovers or anything like that, totally CGI. This film also had a trite storyline unfortunately and did not do that well.

I was expecting a real generational improvement from Avatar, but while it was entertaining and visually spectacular I was expecting better considering how technology has progressed in 9 years+.

If you don't know about Final Fantasy, and you may not have seen or heard of it as it was a box office bomb. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was a computer animated science fiction film by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the Final Fantasy series of role-playing games. It was released on July 11, 2001.

The story follows scientists Aki Ross and Doctor Sid in their efforts to free Earth from a mysterious and deadly alien race known as the Phantoms, which has driven surviving humanity into "barrier cities". They must compete against General Hein, who wishes to use more violent means to end the conflict. The film was the first attempt to make a photorealistic rendered 3D feature film.Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is set on a future Earth infested by Phantoms, alien life forms. The remaining humans live in "barrier cities" all over the world and are engaged in an ongoing struggle to free the planet. Two scientists, Aki Ross and her mentor, Dr. Sid, are searching for eight life forms which they believe possess spirits capable, when joined, of defeating the Phantoms. Meanwhile, a general named Hein is determined to use a powerful space cannon to destroy the Phantoms, though Aki and Sid believe the cannon may destroy the Earth.

While the film does carry the name Final Fantasy, it is only vaguely thematically related to Square Co.'s popular Final Fantasy series of games. - source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirits_Within

AVATAR 3D

Is this a Na'vi Dog??