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Long weekend... |
So here in the US o A we had a long weekend. First one in what feels like months (but probably not that long). I had the day off but Angel was working to bank the day for maternity leave. I dropped Angel at work then headed out to play golf at Hermann Park. Started with a par, then hit a bogey on the next 7 holes (sigh). I did finish the front with a par. 10th hole was double par (which is not good) but then hit par on the next three holes before getting rained out after the 13th. I was completely drenched and learnt that the Capris I was wearing did not deal with the wet well... unless you like the see through look!
After cleaning and drying up I relaxed at home until it was time to pick Angel up, after which we went to see the new Indiana Jones movie. I really enjoyed the movie. Plenty of fun action sequences and lots of laughs. Not as good as Raiders or Last Crusade, but a solid movie in its own right. We then watched Bride and Prejudice on DVD. Another fun light movie.
Saturday we hosted the parents and some friends for lunch which was cooked by Angel's mum, and we looked through a bunch of photos of Angel and Sherwin as kids. I went to play poker on Saturday night while Angel worked and relaxed at home (no I did not win) and Sunday we went to parents for dinner. More relaxing weekend that some recently... and some coming up I imagine, but still feeling tired this morning. Sigh... why must Monday's be sooo painful to wake up to?
Good news is that I just received the new camera I bought (after spiderwebbing the lense on my old Sony). Got the Nikon D60 with two lenses, a carrying case, extra battery and a Speedlight flash (for indirect/soft flash). Not played with it much (but have some) and here are two of the first photos... one taken with a direct flash, and one with an indirect flash (flash pointing at 90 degrees to target). Nothing else was changed apart from angle of the flash... Oh... if only our photographer at the wedding had such complex technology as a soft flash... maybe most of the photos would not have come out as over exposed!
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 In-Direct Flash |
Thanks to Virginia for the Bride and Prejudice loan. It was fun. Lead chick was obviously much better looking than the lead dudes, but that's okay. The last competition round of So You Think You Can Dance featured two of the super-cut hottie guy dancers without their shirts on. I think I lived.
Nah, it's 'cause your wife is asian. I'm told it's hard to get asian chicks to look good in photos. I'm just off to browse some websites to double check on that, I'll report back in, say, 3 or 4 weeks time :-)