Also there are a few updates to the website that I’m pretty excited about!  First is my new splash page, which I mentioned in a previous post.  Now it’ll be easier to get where you need when visiting my website! Simply go to http://www.rekphoto.com and click where you’d like to be.  You may also notice a new theme, which I really like!

The other update, which is clear from that splash page as well as the new icons near the top of the blog, is you can now connect with me on Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter (I have Tumblr too but not sure how much I’ll use it — or how!)  If for some reason those aren’t enough, there’s always good ol’ email!   Also, at the bottom of each post is a set of icons, so if you read something you’d like to share, there’s an icon to do so for many of the social networking services — please feel free to share if you think something is of interest to others.

The last update is my camera (Nikon D80) went out for repair last week.  Working on my 365@50 project, I’ve been taking my camera everywhere — without a case.  Well it got me, because getting out of my car I must’ve bumped the camera on my parking brake lever, and then I noticed:

1. The shutter speed wouldn’t go beyond 1/200.  I have been doing a lot of shooting in manual, and being brighter in the mornings than in the evening when I take a shot, I had to up it, but no matter how I spun the dial, it wouldn’t go past 1/200.  Thinking I may have turned the control dial a bit (weird things happen when the dial is stuck between M and one of the picture modes!), I looked and it was definitely set on M.
2. Knowing 1/200 is the max sync speed for the flash, I pushed the flash button and it wouldn’t pop up.  I could slip a fingernail under it and manually release it but it wouldn’t go up on its own.
3. There’s a small crack on the top of the pop-up flash.  That’s how I figured I must’ve bumped it.  It wasn’t hard but I guess it was enough to do some damage.

It’s at Nikon’s repair facility in Melville, NY — hopefully the repair won’t be too much!  I’d been eye-balling the new D300s for a bit now and my wife was gracious enough to give the nod!  I’ll sell the D80 when I get it back as other than this bump, it’s been babied and has less than 7,000 shots.  If you know of anyone looking for a 1-year old D80 (I also have the MB-D80 battery grip which is newer than that), let me know!

Here are a few of my recent shots from the 365@50 before “the incident”:

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Below are some of my favorites from the area.  The first is of the train station/visitors center in Old Town Manassas.  The other two are from the Battlefield location off of Route 29.  They’re available for purchase as prints in the gallery.  Enjoy!

P.S.  I have created a new splash page for my website, blog, etc.  If you have a link to me on your website and have it going to blog.rekphoto.com, please change it to www.rekphoto.com — thank you!

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