Life has been busy for me lately — lots of stuff to do, things to plan for, people to meet up with, etc. It’s times like this that I go into my thinking phase where I muse about any random thing that pops up in my noodle.
As a result, I’ve got a whole bunch of half-baked blog posts that I’m still in the middle of writing. I’ll finish them off when I have a bit more time…
Anyway, for all you serious photographers out there, a bunch of new toys have recently been introduced for you to drool over:
- Canon have upgraded their 30D and 1D-series cameras to the 40D, 1D Mark III and 1Ds Mark III respectively.
- Nikon have announced their D300 and D3 bodies to compete with Canon’s current dominance in the dSLR market.
- Olympus have decided to join in on the party with their recent announcement of the E-3.
This is all good news for anybody who is planning on entering the dSLR camp.
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It’s one of those things that you hear about, and dismiss as an unfortunate event. The probability of it affecting you is rather slim, and so there’s no need to be so worried about it. The only problem is that regardless of how unlikely something is to happen, there’s still a possibility that it can occur.
I had the somewhat unfortunate experience last night of a grab-and-run while I was waiting at a red light.
Fortunately for me, there was nothing on the passenger seat, and so the would-be thief took off empty-handed. I was also lucky enough that the assailant wasn’t armed or violent.
It all happened extremely quickly — the whole event lasted at most a second. Everything that followed was simply a reaction as there was just no time to think and respond. It’s only after I’ve replayed the entire event over and over again in my mind that I can now make some sort of sense as to what happened…
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