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… from Spiderman and the Little Mermaid.

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the hood that comes with the 17-40 f/4L is absurdly wide and flat and hard to fit in a camera bag. If you happen to be using the 17-40 on a 1.6x crop body (ie, 20D, Rebel, etc), you can substitute for the much nicer-looking and convenient EW-83DII . The EW-83DII is handsome, professional looking, [...]

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Today: after dinner show. Daughter and maybe Son in costume. You are invited. From Daughter. King Kong Kitchy, 1st song. Under the Sea, Part of Your World.

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Daughter used crayon and inkstamp images of animals to create this vision of a tropical rain forest, which to her is Aruba, a place she only knows from song. I assume it’s a tropical rain forest, anyway, because it’s raining.

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Daughter saw me shooting objects in my homemade mini photo studio. She wanted to shoot some objects herself. Here is the result. Click the contact sheet to see a slide show:

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Autumn finds Son dealing with worsening asthma symptoms. Daughter finds the time to write in her diary almost every night.

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Overnighter in Franconia Notch with Daughter Daughter and I enjoyed a short (overnight) camping trip to Franconia Notch. I introduced her to my favorite kind of outdoor travel, with a taste of hiking and bicycling. We tented in the Fransted Family Campground, which was nicely quiet in October. We toured some of New Hampshire’s beautiful [...]

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