Hiatus – that’s a weird word, innit? Sounds sort of medical and ominous, as in, “Mr.Smith, I’m afraid you have a hiatus – we’ll have to eviscerate.“

Well, here I am, back, on Christmas Day, which is by tradition in my household utterly depressing, and this year is no exception. In fact it has outdone itself spectacularly this time around, but enough wallowing in misery – otherwise some of it will spill over the edge of the tub!

Because how can the world be a totally dark and soulless place when you have a Nikon D90? Yes, I have recently relinquished my trusty entry-level D50, which has served me well these last four years, and acquired one of this beauties, and here I am to share with you some of the first fruits.

I haven’t fully mastered the advanced features of this fine machine yet, or even some of the basic ones, but still the results are pretty good, especially the monochrome.

First up, a colour moon shot taken with a 200mm zoom lens, sans tripod:

Here’s a nice portrait of a certain Mr.Itoh, who may not be named for legal reasons. Doh!

Next comes some humble apartment lights made interesting by angle and monkeying with the white balance:

Back to the BW for this next effort:

More clouds taken on the same day as the previous shot:

Here’s another experiment with high ISO and weird white balance, transforming a regular park bench into something more arty:

Finally back to the moon:

Not bad, huh?

Flickr. Nikon D50, Nikkor D 35mm 2.8

I took a trip back home for the short Thanksgiving break. These are some photos I took of Savana in a nice field. At least they have fields and pretty nature things in TN. I had a good time, yet i felt that it was way too short. I am super busy with finals here and Baltimore and the depressing weather is not helping to much my focus and ambition.

(You might recognize this pretty lady from my pic that won third place back in Sep.)

I am sure that most of my readers will find this post a little uninteresting, but what can I say? This one goes out to Thanksgiving gatherings everywhere! Truthfully, mom asked me to take a few pictures, and so here they are. Enjoy!

All Nikon D50 with Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G Lens.

(My brother and his girlfriend)

(My lovely wife)

(My sister has an idiosyncratic way of picture posing…)

(Dr. Barbie)

Selfportrait

Cubes behind cubes…

Anocheciendo en el Santuario de la Virgen de la Luz, en Arroyo de la Luz (Cáceres)

Autorretrato

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Detalle de un escaramujo (Rosa canina) cerca de Puebla de Sanabria (Zamora)

Ramas

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A través del espejo

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Fair Trade coffee, they call it.
Compared with a normal one, it’s just a dwarf !! And they ask €1.65 for it. Fair Trade ?!?
For a Double Espresso, it should definitely be bigger. Anyway, it was a strong one, I’m not going to try their “4 shot”.

Anyway, you’re warned for the coffee of Brussels Central !!
Yours sincerely,
Dikkie, who puts crap online, since 1999.