Greetings Earthlings. I can't tell you how much I miss posting pics here at dA. Not having a place to show my stuff really affects my desire to get out there three/four times a week and hunt down new images. However, I cannot return here and show because of my fervid objections to certain procedures here.

A few updates...

SLIDE SHOW
I am working on a project right now of creating a slide show of my Detroit images, put to music. When complete I will probably show it on YouTube. I'll post the link here. However, that won't be tomorrow. It's a huge project.

WEBSITE
I am planning on posting my own website with only my own photos. I'd like to create a page of new stuff I've found. I'll probably separate it in a few directions, the death (cemeteries) on one side, the destruction on the other, maybe something else in the middle.

ORDER
Yes, I ordered a new camera today. I've pretty much worn out my three digital cameras and am turning my attention to a D-SLR. This will be my first venture in that realm, in a digital camera, that is. Years ago I owned a Minolta SRT-101 film camera and loved it. After careful consideration, I'm going with a good, solid camera, unfortunately one of the more popular brands. Yeah, it's gonna be a Canon Rebel XTi. I ordered a decent telephoto, which I must say is my favorite way of shooting pics. I really enjoyed my Fujifilm S500 but had so many problems (and extremely poor customer service) that I won't go there again. My Minolta Dimage Z3 was fun, especially the 12X optical zoom, but it had metering problems all the while; I was able to fix and compensate in my photo editing, so you probably did not know. My Canon Powershot A50 was a good, solid camera that always delivered sharp rich pics. It lacked telephoto capacity so I did not use it as often.

Stop by and say 'hi' once in a while. I'm still here, but just busy with my projects and hopefully soon I'll get back to my camera, probably by this weekend. I'll have it by Friday.