I got my new camera today and it took me about two hours to unwrap everything, charge the battery, and get my first picture taken with the thing. My assumption that I’ll be needing to take a photography class or two is correct.
Anyway, the first two pictures were of the dog and a lizard, since those were the only somewhat interesting things around.
Unrelated to herping other than in nomenclature, I’ve launched a Web site for my graphic design work. If you know anyone looking for pro-level creative services of any type, send them to zigbotmedia.com. I guess I could mention here that the logo and name are in honor of our pretty yellow female bearded dragon, Zigbot, shown below. When I drew the logo originally, she was fairly young and really feisty at all times. Now she’s a big fat slug of a lizard who’s lost the devious face I had in mind. Oh well, nice memories.
Wow, I just spammed my own site. I’m not sure how to feel about that.
Today I took a step away from just being a herp-nerd by spending $1700+ on camera gear for the upcoming year. After months of research and thousands of reviews (not kidding, unfortunately), I got some great advice from a couple of folks at the AHA Forums and ended up getting a Canon 40D DSLR and two Canon lenses (28-135 & 75-300) with a 3-year warranty.
It comes in the mail in about a week. I am flipping out inside, hard.
