Yay Christmas in germany with the family.

You just don't need a flash sometimes, but higher iso would be nice...

one of the worst pictures I ever took, but the stuff was so tasty and my fingers were shaking from the cold...

a chocolate shop in Potsdam :)

I'm happy to announce that my website now allows comments and has a guest book.

...And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy." And the Lord did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats and large chu ... And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it." Amen...

I guess I watched too munch monty python lately, but I just LOVE this part!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Knight_(Monty_Python)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Hand_Grenade_of_Antioch

On this day 10 years ago I told a woman

I love you

and her response was, what does this mean for you. This question surprised me in a way that I thought was not possible and I was not able to answer this question in any way.

If she would ask me the same question now, what does

I love you

mean, I'm still not sure how to find the right words to describe such a feeling. But this time I would actually have a rough idea and would understand why she asked this question in the first place.

I think sometimes in live people ask you questions which you are not able to answer, but leave you with a better understanding of your self and you can only be thankful for things like this. Sadly this woman disappeared 2001 from my live and I was never able to reestablish contact since them.

well, well, well

now that radio popper finally sells the radiopopper juniors, well I got a little dilemma.

It would cost me 350$ for a set of 2 x transmitter, 4 x receiver and I would loose TTL (which I just don't care for) and high speed sync (kinda sucks), but get radio controlled slaves.

what does this get me?

• each camera has a small transmitter now, no more swapping the SB-900 from a --> b
  
• all my sb-600 get's a receiver
• my sb-900 get's a receiver
• friends just buy a transmitter and can use my flash and other way around
  

so I can control all flashes from all cameras all the time

AND

I could add alianbees to the bunch \o/ and use all my speed lights

AND

I can use my SB-900 now as flash instead of master which doubles the power of my little softbox \o/

...I guess I have to go shopping soon...

2 x $99 JrX Transmitter + JrX Receiver Basic Kit
2 x $59 JrX Receiver Basic Individual

funny I'm out of the states since close to a month now and all the readers of this blog disappeared and I have maybe 1 hit a day instead of 50 something...

I get the message I will write more as soon as I find time for it, latest in january when I'm back in davis.