Kid in a Canon store..

After the Disney trip and the realization from the wife that her hubby should get some pro photography gear...

We now are proud owners of a Canon 5D Mark ii

After watching the door for the Fedex truck for a long long seemingly endless time, it arrived today with the first L series lens and a Canon Speedlite flash to go with it.

All this was possible thanks to a friend who got us a great deal through Canon employee discount!

Just holding the camera after putting on the lens and flash gave me goosebumps. There is a lot to learn and a lot of fun to be had going through the learning, like how to get your ISO to be as low as 50 or as high as 25600 or how to shoot a HD video with a full frame sensor Camera!

Usually when this space gets a new Camera or lens update, there are the first sample photos. Today there is only a lot of emotion. The photos will come!

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We are Indians?!

The little one tells Jr. during our Disney trip "We are Indians.. we helped the Pilgrims.. that is why everyone should thank us during thanksgiving!"

Me : !!!???!!!! Who taught you that?

Little one : My school.. I know all about thanksgiving!

Jr. : The Indians in the thanksgiving story are native Americans who wear feathers on their head.. not people from India.

LO : So nobody is thanking us? (looks sad)

Me : guess not.

LO : I was wondering because we don't eat turkey and live in teepees!

Now that we have the Indian side cleared up we might have to dispel doubts on who the pilgrims were...

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Macromania..

We were visiting close friends who recently relocated from our neighborhood to Irvine before our return from Disney. Saw this beautiful rose in their backyard and took out the macro lens..

we went back to the house and saw a small peacock with real fine detail. (the head of this peacock is smaller than a dime, the whole thing fits within the palm of your hand)..

Irvine was nice. The same $ seems to buy better things in Irvine than in the bay area. Did not see many desis or an international population mix though.. maybe it was the area we visited?!

Did not even know that having an international crowd is now part of a built in pre-requisite for us to live anywhere! Strange how the bay area changes you in ways you did not imagine!

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