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129/365 – May 9, 2009 – Inflation

What isn’t going up these days? Except for the Sony Zeiss 24-70mm F/2.8 which dropped from $1749 to an affordable $1599, not much else.

Another year, another 2¢ postage (to 44¢) increase for mailing a letter. Fortunately these last forever.

Prices go up Monday May 11. If you want some forever stamps check your local post office’s vending machine before then (where I got these).

127/365 – May 7, 2009 – Are you feeling lucky?

No access to Lightroom right now, so this is straight from the backyard to flickr.

Oh yeah, today May 7, 2009, marks my 1 year anniversary with my camera. I still think of it as my "new camera." 🙂 Ironically, I bought it at Circuit City which is no longer around. Quite a shame. I’m glad I’ve learned so much and have enjoyed using it. I think I have come quite a ways in a year’s time. Remembering back to the first few weeks, I was using AUTO mode and now I’ve progressed to aperture priority and at times, full manual. I’m also learning how to use light more effectively and some strobing techniques. At first (on AUTO mode), I was frustrated by the lack of nice looking pictures but I soon learned how to control the camera and capture what I envisioned.