James-Bong

Lots of events and life changes kept me uninterested in anything last year and most of this year so far. Things are starting to look better. The clouds are beginning to clear. I've decided to poke my head out of my thick protective shell I've built around me.



Maybe I'll get to posting again, but no promises.

It's been almost a year since I updated my journal, and almost just as long since I've uploaded any pictures. I'm not dead and I haven't stopped taking pictures. I just lost my passion and time for my hobby. 2012 has been a very rough year for me and ended on a serious life changing low note. I plan on coming back once the turmoil that has entered my life settles down and I settle into my new routine. I have some pictures I'm really happy with that I want to post soon.

Keep Watching.

My camera's back from Canon repair! I sent it in because the rubber soft touch surfaces on the grip had come unglued, and I wanted that taken care of before the warranty expired this month.

I was hoping to use the down time to edit some photos, but the day after I mailed off my camera body, my hard drive on my main computer suffered a catastrophic failure and I lost all of my Lightroom edits! (Fortunately all of my RAW camera files are on a little raid server that's almost full.) Within a week, friends have been coming to the rescue. Now I'm building a 6Tb RAID 5 array in my big computer to store all of my photos and Lightroom database. I also have a 60Gb SSD for the operating system and program files. Once I have everything set up again, life will be good.

I have a ticket and an early access pass for Burning Man. I'd be more stoked if I wasn't so stressed out and pissed off about everything else.

We got our tax return, and I just picked up a 60D. I'm heading to Yosemite to break it in!