David_Cavan

We digitized everything we could, including our parent's photos and slides a few years ago, and now it's a relatively easy thing to update that every year and keep it organized. Each of our four children, and my sister and brother, have a hard drive that we update for them every now and then. So all photos for two generations+ back (from them) have been distributed as widely as possible. That, plus a genealogy project that went back to the mid 1700-s on both side of the family have given our children an opportunity to keep, throw away, or ignore and allow to degrade the photos that show our family's life over the past century. It's totally up to them what they do, and that's fine by me.

<p>Burrard Bridge is better - west side, about mid-span. It fills up early on the sidewalk so expect to spend a couple of hours there before the show starts.</p>

<p>Very nice apparently - we didn't make it to this one, but plan to attend the next two events, weather permitting. It's been going on for many years here now, and we have become a little jaded, I suppose.</p>

<p>This is from the south side of False Creek, possible from Little Mountain which is easily findable - check out the Cambie St. and 25th area of Vancouver. It's also possible that it is from a tall building in the Fairview slopes area so not easily duplicated. But the views from Little Mountain can be spectacular, if you have a long lens to get past the tree line.</p>

<p>peter - no - that's normally a late September and later thing. This time of year you can get some great sunrises over Mt. Baker in the distance with the city in the foreground, and good views of the city for the rest of the day into the evening. Haze makes a big difference - we've had a lot of that this year with forest fires burning throughout the province, and that's unpredictable.</p>

<p>I live about 10 minutes from where I suspect that photo (now taken down) was shot. It's probably taken from the first viewpoint on the Cypress Bowl Rd. - roughly found here on Google maps</p> <p>https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Cypress+Mountain/@49.3538632,-123.1832975,16z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x548660d698f59675:0x821712a6c6d32ff3?hl=en</p> <p>The viewpoint is well marked once you leave the Highway 1 (Upper Levels Highway) and head up the hill.</p><div></div>

<p>Le Mans 24 Hour race last in June - a little bit of off-roading early in the race</p><div></div>

<p>What Fred said.</p>

<p>We just switched from a five-year old Toshiba laptop that I bought for weight (or lack thereof) purposes, to a Surface Pro 3. I can use it for both real work and photography, and I actually went up a level in performance, especially with all the usual Microsoft tools and third-party apps. It has a single USB port that works well so camera connectivity is fine. It appears to be durable, and it has a decent screen. Since these are multi-year investments for us this was worth it, but it is a pricey decision.</p>

<p>Picasa from Google is free, and it works with the photos from your desktop. It has a collage feature we've used multiple times. You can let it sort out your entire desktop photo collection, or just point it at one or two directories. </p>

<p>I'm shocked as well. Shocked that Walgreens kept doing this for so long, actually. We had the owner of an apparently quite successful, long-term local camera chain come and present to our photo club last night. He made the point that they haven't made a profit on any film processing, either in-house, or out-sourced, in years. They do it as a service, and because those people will ultimately buy digital equipment from him.</p>

<p>What a great opportunity, Jordan. I'd like to do one of those trips myself. I checked the EXIF data on your shot, and I think the big issue with that one is that you were hand-held at 1/640s, at 190mm, from a boat. That's a tough shot to nail, and I think you are right about getting the shutter speeds up. In that case you could have dropped the aperture and increased the shutter speed, and you have room to increase the ISO as well on a 7D. So there's room to get the shutter speed up quite a bit and that would make a huge difference.</p> <p>As far as lenses go, I suspect the new 100-400 would give you a couple of stops as well if you could rent that - in this case it's all about shutter speed. I doubt that you'll find anything better than the 7D, or not at least anything that's worth the cost.</p>

<p>Time to grab a coffee and settle in for this one.</p>

<blockquote> <p><a href="http://news.artnet.com/in-brief/new-york-times-exposes-peter-lik-photography-scheme-264858#.VO3TVWuaq6k.facebook" target="_blank">New York Times Exposes Peter Lik Photography Scheme - artnet News</a><br> </p> </blockquote> <p>Perhaps a better title would be New York Times Exposes A Successful Business Plan. Because that's all this story is. A scarce commodity, sold at a profit, to people who want to buy it. I'm always amused by the umbrage of some when that happens. <br /></p>

<p>I don't see why this is an "either/or" question. I have multiple DSLR bodies with lots of buttons, and I shoot each one with as few buttons as necessary. In fact, some of the newer equipment from Canon (which is what I'm familiar with) have a couple more buttons on the exterior that allow me to almost never wade into menus. But why would I buy the thing that didn't allow me the once-in-a-while option to do something special, in favor of a stripped-down camera that would cost just as much, or even more, since as the OP states the bulk of the market is going to buy the feature-laden model.</p>

<p>I'm with Howard on this one. I have a strap arrangement for the tripod on the outside of an Owl backpack that works fine for travel (cars & airplanes) and hiking. The tripod would take up space inside that could be used for that one more lens that I need for the one picture that's going to make the whole trip worth it. </p>

<p>Thanks Louis. A stunning group of images - I learned more about the sun in that 4 minutes than in the rest of my life.</p>

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<blockquote> <p>You might change your mind after a look at Nikon's recent 3rd quarter results:</p> </blockquote> <p>Interesting - there are statistics, and outright lies of course. Hard to say which is what. The OP's graph shows overall sales (all companies) holding steady from the previous quarter, so if that is true then indeed Nikon is suffering. </p> <p>Regardless, I'm not caring that much. I have all the cameras I need for some time to come.</p>

<p>Robin - I agree that the decline has been precipitous for many quarters, but there is an increase over the past four quarters, the first time that's happened since 2011/12. What's going to be interesting is whether there is a continued increase Q1 and Q2 of 2015. Only time will tell. If so, then I think the vendors will have figured out the current state of the market.</p>

<p>Lots of good comments here, and there's no doubt that sales of the DSLR has been impacted on all sides by other more portable and popular solutions. As perhaps it should have been, because many bought DSLRs for all the wrong reasons, and phones/tablets are much more portable, providing enough capability for many people.</p> <p>The chart linked by the OP shows things a certain way, as do all charts. I reworked the data, and found the 2014 trend interesting, and if I was in the marketing department at Canon or Nikon camera divisions I'd be puzzling through what the data means. Is this a real levelling out of the drop, or just a dead-cat bounce?</p>

<p>Well, if we are taking poverty at death as an indication of artistry...</p> <p>http://www.newser.com/story/143838/kinkade-9m-in-debt-when-he-died.html</p> <p>just sayin'</p>