Hawaii (Maui) Vacation

  Black Sands Beach (Day 5)Originally uploaded by charsplat. I’ve been meaning to post on our Hawaii trip for a week now. I guess now is as good a time as any. From Sept 9th through Sept 16th Anji and I went to Hawaii. The kids stayed home and were watched by our families (thanks ...

Manfrotto 714B Update!

A while back I raved about how much I liked the little Manfrotto 714B digital tripod. It turns out I don’t like this thing nearly as much as I thought I did. My reasons for buying a small tripod were simply that I knew I’d never carry a larger tripod with me and therefor I’d ...

Cochrane Labour Day Parade

0904-105009-01 Originally uploaded by charsplat. I went out with Scott, Harry, Gary, Chris and Norm from CPS on Monday morning to shoot the Cocrane Labour Day parade. It was great. I brought Josh and he hung-out in the backpack (which decreased my camera gear carrying capacity but that’s ok). I used my new 75-300mm lens ...