So, in the spirit of darkness I've been out shooting some, eh, darkness. Clouds actually, since there is light spill from the city present, I was able to capture some nice long exposure frames of these clouds.

And then we have some Warp Speed, Warp Speed Orbs and a mountain top. It's nice to be out shooting again!

Images captured by D3 with AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED and D700 with AF-S NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED. Written to SanDisk Extreme UDMA compact flash card.

Yup!, I'm noting 09.11.2009 on the calendar, and I just scratch my head and wonder where 2009 went. Holy @£$# of all that is holy, it's getting close to Christmas!

It hasn't been a good year, actually, it has been a terrible year, almost no photography at all, quite sad really, I've been paying too much attention on hardware this year. Wow!, that is really the right focus ain't it?

For crying out loud!, it is time for me to get serious, I need to really make an effort, I need to get out and shoot pictures, I need to find interesting environments to photograph, I need to find some light, it's so darn dark at the moment, and it gets even darker, that just makes me sad.

It's a good thing we're getting closer to the time of light—in a few short weeks it will be light everywhere, then, will be a good time to shoot photographs.

And this, I find myself saying every year, and you know what?, it never really happens. Maybe this year is the time to change all that?, yes I think so, indeed, I will make these words come true this year, I promise. Right Rudolph?, Gruff!

That's one more chunk of meaningless yap!, more to come I guess.

Had a great time on a show for my nephews school 90th anniversary yesterday. There were some really talented kids singing and dancing.

But what was really cool for me, was when they turned down the lights, and just had some very dim blue spots from the ceiling, lighting some dancers in white suits. Ah, perfect time to test the ISO performance of the D700.

I'm pretty sure people was thinking; 'What a dumb-ass!', I understand that, because it was dark, almost pitch black, you could almost not see the dancers on the stage, and there I was firing off frames like a mad man, the only mad man I might add, and without flash.

As it turns out, I really got some images out of it, despite dialing -2 EV into the camera, operator error I know. Shot this at ISO 1600, which basically is a normal value these days. I also have one frame shot at ISO 6400, will process that tonight. Should be fun to see what I can get out of that file.

Right, that's one more meaningless post. Got to keep the blog alive. :)

Yes, it's tool time again. I've been watching this lens for a while, it's cheap, so the price was never an issue, the question was rather, 'Did I really need one?'. I'd say yes. Not that my workhorse AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8 is bad or anything, but there is something special about how that f/1.4 renders bokeh, it's just gorgeously smooth.

So, I'm attending a school play for my nephew this week, will test it in some dim lighting there for sure, really looking forward to that. And of course I get to test the ISO performance on my D700 properly, have'nt really done that, despite that I have had it since november 2008. It's my back-up, and has just 500 clicks on the shutter.

I will not take the D3, I'm travelling light for a change. I realize I have too much equipment to lug around. I have a stuffed Lowepro CompuTrekker, I'm impressed with what it can actually hold.

In my CompuTrekker I got the following equipment:

• One D3
• One D700
• One AF-S 14-24mm F/2.8G ED
• One AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
• One AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8G ED
• One AF-S 50mm f/1.4G
• One SB-800
• Two SB-900's
• One Zoom H4n Handy Recorder (for sound)
• Two SC-29 TTL cables
• One Nikon Monarch Binocular
• Extra batteries, CF cards, light modifiers (Honl stuff),and various maintenance gear.

That is really quite impressive considering that it's not really that big on the outside, but it sure is spacious on the inside. My favorite bag of all time without question. The Lowepro Slingshot 300 AW on the other hand has not seen any use yet. It sits firmly on my floor, with the labels still on(?!). I've asked my self the question if I really need that one. If I were to recommend a bag for someone, I would definitely recommend the Lowepro CompuTrekker. I think Lowepro even has a new model out now.

Well, that is todays post, I'm trying to be a more frequent poster in the future, it has been way to quiet here now.

Time for a little status update on what's going on with the images on this blog.

There is still problems with some images. I have no idea what is happening, but I will look into this again tonight. Right now some images a showing, and some are not. As far as I can tell, everything looks to be correct, I have no idea why there actually is a problem.

I believe that some of the image problems that are happening might be related to a WYSIWYG editor issue, not quite sure yet though, but I have reasons to believe that it might be the case.

Because of me hunting for bugs, the site might be a little rough thenext few days, you might see various content pop-up here and there, that's just me shifting things round a bit. I hope to resolve this issue soon.

UPDATE: Image problems are now resolved. It was an WYSIWYG editor problem.