Made with my IPhone
So we joined the 21st century and got a pair of smart phones. Not that 3G networks help much the places I go. Lost service a half dozen times on this trip already. but we have made motel reservations, found cool places to eat, and I even made my guy a Twitter avatar image with the new devices (using the cool Photoshop Mobile app).
I'm doing this trip, so far 4 days, with just the Nikon 16-35VR on the D700 body. Not one lens change. If you've shot with me in the field, you would find this shocking, even heretical that I have not put on my 70-200 even once. I never liked the 12-24 DX on D2X body, would do just about anything to avoid having to break it out. I committed to give this new lens a workout before I make up my mind and I'm actually having fun. Part of it is the full frame viewfinder is so much brighter, I am having an easier time composing. Part of it is the VR, which is letting me move fast and I haven't even used the tripod yet on this trip either. The biggest thing, though, is that I am shooting different subjects than before, and the compositions are coming easier than they do in the traditional landscape wide-angle/hyperfocus/12-inches-to-infinity images that I once thought I needed.
I'd post some more right now, except for a colossal failure at some point in my image ingestion workflow that is damaging the files on my CF cards. I'm not going to trouble shoot this until I get home and can ingest the files from my cards, but I suspect it is the spare CF reader I bought for travel. It's the one component I haven't used much before. Luckily nothing earth-shattering has been lost, just a major annoyance, because I'm seeing a lot of weird, road-trip quirky stuff. No surprise there.
Yesterday as we came out of the mountains, we found spring. The first green leafing out of cottonwoods. Today we go lower yet, looking for wildflowers. I might even do one of those hyperfocal/give 'em-all-you-got shots at sunset if the lighting god of the universe smiles on me today.
Driving on, from Globe, AZ.
