The Perigee Moon of March, 2011

Tonight's full moon looked every bit as impressive as the news people said it would. I moved a bar stool to the back deck, plopped the Nikon 8700 onto the mini tripod, screwed in the 1.5x telephoto lens, and let fly using the auto timer for the shutter. Keeping the two dogs from tromping around on the deck while I held still was almost more of a task than composing the shot. It seems to have worked, though. I had only a few minutes to take the photo, the cloud cover was pretty heavy with only a few "windows" of opportunity.

Nikon Cameras -They Breed!

At last count, there were 3 Nikons and one Canon in the house. I used the Canon PowerShot S50 to take pics of the 2 Nikon CoolPix 5700s and CoolPix 8700 during a rare moment when all 4 cameras were having their CF cards backed up to the server. I've been wanting to go the DSLR route, but the Nikon photos are so nice, and the little Canon is so handy...




Chances are, if you see photos uploaded across the web by your's truly, they were taken with one of these cameras!