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Son celebrated his sixth birthday with a Webkinz-themed party. We had various activities based on Webkinz games. Kids decorated name necklaces for their own Webkinz. The Wheel of Wow was built by a friend for a block party and repurposed as a Wheel of Wow. Dart balloons became a series of balloons with kinzcash inside [...]

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Daughter’s recital was yesterday, after son’s t-ball game.

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Son’s last t-ball game of the year was today.
Son gets a hit!

Facing off with the first baseman.

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I’m quite excited by the presence of hummingbirds at our feeder. There are at least two individuals, both females. I saw two of them feeding at the same time this evening.

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Son graduated from Kindergarten tonight. The class put on a little presentation, which of course was not complete without a rendition of “it’s a grand old flag.”

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The wife put up a hummingbird feeder. I was sure that we would not get any hummingbirds where we live. I was wrong.

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Daughter had some friends over for her 9th birthday party. The theme was Ice Cream Party, but it also was quite the Pool Party. See more photos in the gallery.

Here’s a nice example of the Zenitar fisheye on the 5D:

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Here are all the cameras that I’ve owned or used. This is an updating of a previous post.
Film

Kodak Instamatic: 1970’s; my first camera as a kid. Surprisingly, I did quite a bit of planned model shooting, specifically a set of my friend Jeffrey posing as a “Wacky Statue of Liberty” holding up various odd items [...]

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I ordered my Russian-made Zenitar 16mm fisheye lens on 4/22/08 from www.rugift.com. I received it 6/10/08. That’s about six weeks.
I didn’t quite realize it was actually shipping from Russia (to the Eastern US). Apparently there were some problems with Customs; the lens got returned to the facotry and had to be re-shipped. (why? doesn’t rugift [...]

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