Standard

Today a friend asked me for an advice on buying a new photo camera and during mail conversation he asked me which lens I use the most. I was surprised myself. I have Nikkor AFS 14-24 f/2.8 and AFS 70-200 f/2.8. but my most used lens is Nikkod AF-D 50 mm f/1.4. Surprise, surprise...

Nikkor 14-24

So... There is this crater here nearby called Longonot. It's been inactive for last 150 years and now there is a foliage inside the crater. Nice place for a walk around the rim. So I forced Ally to climb it with me for I wanted to see how wide is my 14-24. Well... As you can see not wide enough to cover whole ring.



But still wide enough for such funky pics:

XKCD

I guess some of you are familiar with XKCD. For those of you who are not...

Waving from afar...

To all of you lucky ones... here

B-Day

And now I am one year closer to the end. Thanks to all who remembered.

Operation Flashpoint Dragopn Rising - 1st impressions

Oh well, where to start?

I thought that my notebook would be able to handle this thing. I have here Core2Duo T9550 @ 2.66 GHz with 4 GB of Ram on ATI 3650. The problem is I have full HD @ 1920x1080. And the game is... slow. No matter if I set all settings to high or to low, at my native resolution the thing is just slow... Mouse response is within one second. I remember reading somewhere that Codemasters boasted the game is going to scale well on lower end PCs, well, perhaps it scales well, but my experience is the same no matter how I set the visual settings.

Of course I might try running it at 1366x768 or something, but what's the point of having full HD and using lo-rez?

So for the time being I am a bit disappointed. Uninstalled the thing and mothballed it. Perhaps one day I will come back and give it another try...

Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising

Oh well, have finally came around all the installation glitches and gotchas. I fear I will not sleep much these days...

Semper Fi, mot*erfu*kers!

Apology...

As per request - two posts taken down. Sorry...

Planting the seed

Today (and by all means - mark it in your calendars, boys and girls) was the first time ever that Aikido was introduced to Kenya.

I had the privilege to lead the class with the support of Marcin Chlyston, we had three students ;-) I know, I know, but even the Rome was not built in one day...

At this point I should thank to everyone who made it possible, but foremost I think my gratitude should go to Piotr Masztalerz. He made it possible for me to become whoever that I am now. I know he looks kinda funny on this picture, but trust me - he's the good guy.

The Aikido classes take place at the venue at Japanese Embassy and I would like to thank Japanese Ambassador in Kenya for making this possible. I do not think he will ever visit this page, but I give respect where it is due. Domo arigato godzaimasu

Pin-Ups (well, almost ;-)

The idea is simple - to create a calendar with high quality photographs of young girls from orphanage in Limuru, print it in high resolution on good paper and sell it for outrageous amount of money, which - quite naturally - would go to support the orphanage.

This is why for the lasty two weekends we've been travelling to Limuru taking pics and then scratching our heads why is it that our pics are not good enough (well, if you have some self-criticism). And of course two fundamental questions still remain unanswered - B&W or Color? Landscape or portrait? Personally I'd go for B&W portrait, but as it is a teamwork I'd have to follow the herd.