Check out Music by John Paul www.jpcmusic.com

Album will soon be on itunes for down loads. His first album was called “The first mile” and this album is called “-Continued:” Also Available on iTunes!

Gallery exhibit at Keeble & Shuchat Photography in Palo Alto. December 2 to January 15th. There is 47 prints on display, photos range from Africa to Antarctica.  Photos are upstairs on the Second floor.

Keep January 10th open for a possible Wine & Cheese party more details to follow. Keeble and Shuchat address is 290 California Avenue in Palo Alto, Near the Caltrain Station.

D3 firmware has a bug. If you are shooting at 9 frames per second or more you might get a corrupt file. For a temporary fix I changed my CL continuous low setting to 8 frames per second in the menu. So I will use that till the fix is available.

I got a early birthday gift from Dave SeriTek/5PM 5 bay eSATA enclosure drives. Now I have the tool to get organized, but I need to pick the software I am leaning toward Aperture.

Dave says JBOD stands for “just a bunch of disks”.

Update: the Bug in the firmware has been fixed!!

We went to Yosemite and had a great time. It was not the best for photos but it was great to be there. With the road work going half the valley is not reachable by car but you can still hike to spots. The light was not dramatic and there was not one cloud in the sky. But the amount of water coming down the falls was good. Not too many flowers blooming n the valley but I saw some buds.
I was hiking threw a meadow on a walking path and I can see a dear in the trees at a distance coming our way. So I freeze in my tracks hoping the deer will still head in the same direction. Even tho the deer was not close I slowly lower my camera bag and pull out my camera. By the time I have my camera out the deer is walking around me in a semi circle. After the deer walks around me I have Half Dome with a back ground and the deer turns around and looks at me and just stares. Dave gasps at the scene and starts to take his camera out. Then some guy in a blue Hawaiian shirt comes running toward us with the biggest binoculars I have ever seen. I saw him before looks like he was shaking out a tent. As soon as the deer runs off he turns around and walks away I think he wanted scared him off for some reason. I still got the shot.

Today I just updated my D3 firmware and now I can adjust my focus point brightness witch is a nice feature. There are also some other small fixes and the highlights play back display is easier to find in the menu. It now has vignette control for certain lenses and I turned on that on.

Nikon NX I also updated with the 1.3.3 I am not sure of the details of the changes yet I am just getting to learn the software now. I am very impressed so far and wish I could use it to process my raw files while using Aperture or Lightroom.