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Great Meadows… PAD #1115

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Great Meadows... PAD #1115

Why this is called Great Meadows is beyond me. The place is covered in water. This is a national refuge in Concord, MA. We went there today to meet up with the NEPE from Meetup.com. NEPE stands for New England Photography Expeditions. This was our second Meetup.com event together (and with Eva) and this time our friends Neil and Andrea came along as well. Andrea is a font of technical knowledge with the camera, knowledge that I have to learn and apply to my photography. We talked Cameras and Neil and Allison walked along as well and took some additional photos with their point and shoots. I think we are going to have to borrow one of the family cameras on our next trip so Allison can use a DSLR also.

The day was very nice and afterwards the five of us met up with three of the photographers from the event to swap cameras and see how everyone else did and to have some lunch at a nice little shop on Main street in Concord. I took a bunch of photos and you can see them on this Set on Flickr. I haven’t had time yet to write descriptions of everything however.

Descriptions are in and the images are part of a set, here are 5 random ones from the set, click any one to go to Flickr.

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Off the Wagon… PAD #1107

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Off the Wagon... PAD #1107

Today Allison and I went with New England Photo Expeditions for a walking tour of Boston Churches. We met at the Old North Church and had about 45 minutes to walk around and photograph the place. Then it was off to Saint Leonard Church around the corner. That church had a very nice little garden with some great statues and I took some nice shots of the statues using my telephoto/macro lens on the macro setting. I like that lens much better than my other one. Then it was around the corner again to Saint Stephen’s Church for additional photos. After that we were off to King’s Chapel. In King’s Chapel their were people doing Tory Stories or rather telling visitors the history of the church in traditional garb.

After that we went to a cemetery and then to lunch at Beantown Pub. You can see the whole Gallery on Flickr.

I am not sure if Allison will be letting me go on any more of these trips as I got serious lens envy and really would love to get a nice Nikon FX VR lens. The DX VR lens I used was sweet, 18-200mm. I liked using that one. However, any new equipment is not in my future as our TV died today. It just up and died. I shut it off and it would not turn back on at all. Updated: TV is fine, just needed to be unplugged and plugged back in, lucky as my 2 year warranty was up in January, this past January.

And I used my PhotoTrackr today but when I got home I realized that I had upgraded the software but not the firmware on the device so I could not get the geotags from my photos today. I will have to manually geotag them. The reason I didn’t find this out before we left was that my laptop is acting screwy and would not boot up with the PhotoTrackr or any other program for that matter. I really hope I don’t run into any trouble in the next two weeks as I have some major demos during that time.

While on the trip I learned about this type of site, it is pretty funny.

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