I love these pink ones! hehe  For my daily blog, but I thought I’d post ‘em here too!  Although almost scared to now after all the photo thefts that have been happening as of late.  Don’t steal my stuff, people!  Everything gets registered and that’s a guaranteed win for anyone that sues for copyright infringement.  Just a friendly reminder.

Haven’t updated in a while… for a few reasons.  I created a new blog because I joined a group of photogs taking a 365 day challenge.  So I’ve been posting there everyday and it’s a bit redundant to post the same photos here.  However, I am not abandoning this blog.  Once I have something good to post here I will most certainly.

In the mean time, I just spoke with a wonderful lady at the TN Dept. of Revenue.  She was soooo helpful.  I got tons of questions answered and she told me to call her back any time I needed anything else.  I’ll probably be calling her back once I get ready to register for the machinery exemption.  I’m so excited to find out that I’ll not have to pay use tax on my equipment!  I think Friday I’ll go to Jackson to the district office to get the other stuff squared instead of filing online because they should be able to present me with everything I need on the spot! w00
If only the local people were as helpful as the state people!

Best and worst equipment/gear purchases. I saw this posted on a forum and thought I’d make my own list. These aren’t necessarily from this year, but many are.
Best

Intuous 3– God, a tablet is sooooo much better than using a mouse.
Dynaphos soft box
Kelby books (any, especially Photoshop Book for Digital Photogs)

JTL D-series strobes

16-35mmL, 100-400mmL, 100mm macro, 50mm
Spyder Pro

My domain (although I’ve not yet finished my website)

Silverlake backdrops

NAPP membership (completely invaluable!)

Dynatran shoulderbag (finally, one that holds a good amount of stuff, but not everything and isn’t too big/heavy!)

Shooting Table

WhiBal Cards– only wish I’d remembered to use my NAPP discount!

Worst

Lowepro Stealth Reporter 650AW– great bag, but too big and heavy loaded down– good for storage though

JTL giant softbox– I’d heard bigger is better, and perhaps it is for many, but not for me, especially since I’m cramped for space.

Really expensive/popular PS action set– Nice set (won’t name by whom) but I don’t think it’s worth what I paid for it, especially since I don’t use it any.

Epson P2000– I bought this in lieu of a laptop. Really never used it any, and bought a laptop several months later.

Laptop– Jeff uses it more than I do.

JTL J-160– Purchased it for use as a backlight but don’t really ever use it.

Remote switch

Upcoming must-haves

Sekonic L358

Pocket Wizard tranceiver

Dynaphos soft box (at least one more, eventually more!)
70-200mmL

10-22mm

24-105mmL

That’s all for now I guess; may add to this later…