Shattered Sun

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If anyone’s game, I would totally love to do a shot similar to this. It just screams silly to me.

I can tell you from experience that people love to get handmade items.  Or at least they fake it when they tell me how much they appreciate it.  I can tell you that I simply adore it.  I wish for it.  As a matter of fact, I’m hoping that more of my friends and family will go that route this year.  Why?  Because there’s a bit more heart and soul in the handmade gift.  There’s something special tucked into it.  Something fantastic that defies description.  And if you aren’t a believer yet, peruse Etsy and enjoy the imagination & beauty that is there.  And maybe, just maybe, you can make the Pledge to Buy Handmade.  I don’t know if I can promise to buy everything handmade.  However, I know that I’ll be doing my usual and making gifts for my beloveds. 

The Perseid meteor shower would be so amazing to get photos of. I’m seriously considering taking a day off work to take a gander at it. Granted, I’d have to do it bulb open since the time frames involved are much too long for 30 seconds. I think I have to buy a special wire for my camera. I’ll have to look into that. Anyone out there want to email me and give me some pointers? Until then, I’m going to research on the internet and scope out locations to sit for a few hours and ideas on how to achieve what I’m aiming for. I’m thinking streaks across the sky would be awesome. We’ll see what I turn up and then churn out. If anyone else is interested in partaking a little trip with me in August, give me a hollar!

I am buying myself a hood for my camera this weekend. I hear it’s the best thing for protecting your photos from light that you don’t want. I’m going to give it a shot. Wish me luck and I’ll post how I feel about it soon! Also, I’ve finally done a photo session for someone that didn’t belong to my circle of friends and family!! I’ll post photos from that soon, too. *mwah!

But not for me!! Well, maybe for me, but I’m pretty partial to my current backpack. I got it for Christmas and I just love it. It looks something like this:

Anyway, J is wanting to have a camera of his own and he’s going to be needing a camera bag to go with it because you know how it is. I don’t think we can share every lens that I currently own, so he’ll have to have some of his own and that will take up room that my bag won’t have.

So of course, on my quest for photography stuff, I find Naneupro which has a gorgeous selection of bags. The products shown are extremely well presented, with a ton of photos and even more information. If I had any hesitation of what kind of item I wanted to buy, this site definitely supplies enough information to lay my worries to rest. Who knew there were so many nice options, too?

Anyway, for J, I’d like to get him a bag of similar style, much like this one which is oddly similar to the one that Rachel currently uses. I personally dig it because it has two compartments and is supposed to have increased air flow, which is a big plus here in Arizona. But I think he’d prefer a camera case like this one because it looks like it can hold a lot more stuff and be personalized more. I don’t know, there are almost too many choices… What do y’all think? Anything on that site that jumps out to you?

Otherwise I’m off to pick his brain and find out what he thinks!