The highlights:
- I got a job as an in-house attorney for a charitable organization!
- I am now the proud owner of a sweet camera, the Nikon D3000.
- I rode home with Ms. E A, and this week I met several other cool bikey people.
- The new Tori Amos winter album was released.
Here are some photographs of my day.
I might go a bit crazy with the pictures for a while, so bear with me as I learn how to use this new camera :)
November 12, 2009 at 03:18 |
Congrats on the new job and the new camera! Definitely a top notch day.
November 12, 2009 at 03:28 |
Oh those are some very nice shots! I especially like the macromode shot of the Betty headbadge. I am considering a good digital camera, but am torn about which one to get.
Congratulations on the new job!
November 12, 2009 at 05:52 |
Congratulations on the new job! Good things do happen to good people,
I am looking forward to many more pictures. These ones are great teasers of the ones to come.
November 12, 2009 at 06:06 |
Congratulations! All the best wishes to you from us in Miami.
November 12, 2009 at 07:12 |
Congratulations. That is a good day.
Looking forward to all the pictures to come.
November 12, 2009 at 08:03 |
Congratulations on the job! That’s wonderful news :D Look forward to more great pics!
L x
November 12, 2009 at 08:06 |
Awesome! I’m so happy that you found a cool job! The camera takes nice photos, too.
Congratulations!
November 12, 2009 at 08:20 |
congrats on the job. Great pictures! Love the night city pic!
November 12, 2009 at 09:00 |
Congratulations on the new job. I like the Badge picture very much. The Photo’s are superb There must be a very strong Wind coming off that Lake a lot of times that slows you down.
In Dublin if you are Cycling along the Coast the wrong way into the Wind you can really feel it slowing you down. If it is very bad,I just get off the Coast and go a Road Parallel and it improves tremendously.
November 12, 2009 at 09:36 |
Congrats on the new job and camera! The D3000 is a A LOT of camera and great for taking shot in low light situations. I’m jealous :)
November 12, 2009 at 09:41 |
Good news about the job! In-house sounds like a good thing – I’m getting tired of billable hours.
November 12, 2009 at 09:43 |
Nice choice of camera. I use a Nikon D-40. It’s the first digital SLR I’ve picked up that feels like the old Nikon Fs that I spent most of my life working with.
It’s a great bike camera. I keep mine in an Arkel small bar bag where it’s easy to grab. Sure, I could buy more expensive ones that would use the stable of lenses I have from my old film days, but they’d be heavy and less likely to be used.
When I was home last month, I bought my 88-year-old mother an inexpensive Kodak digital camera and told her I wanted to see a new picture every day.
After the first week, I told her that I was tired of seeing pictures of plants in the back yard, “go shoot some people.” I figured she’d shoot her friends.
Nope, the next morning she sent me two nice portraits of two strangers she had met in the checkout lane at Walmart. Yesterday morning it was two shots of hairdressers at her hair salon.
New cameras are neat.
November 12, 2009 at 10:26 |
Such a cute story about your mom. She sounds awesome.
I’m very interested in your handlebar bag set-up. Right now I am carrying it in a camera bag that I throw in my basket and hold down with netting. I’d love to have a more convenient set-up.
November 12, 2009 at 14:48 |
Sounds like you got the set-up I want! Do you find the D40 still performs well? I’ve actually considered it and still am. From what I hear, it’s still a great machine and can rival the new ones.
Good idea to keep in a bar bag… I’ll have to look into that.
November 12, 2009 at 15:47 |
I’m super happy with the D-40. Here’s an excellent review that I agree with (maybe that’s what makes it excellent).
I like the Arkel bag mounted on a second stem (so it doesn’t take up room other wise used for other toys). It’s a well-made bag with lots of protection and the inner bag is suspended, so it doesn’t jolt the camera as much as carrying it on a rack.
I spent close to 40 years as a newspaper photographer before I retired last year. The D-40 has helped me rediscover how much fun photography can be.
November 12, 2009 at 09:55 |
Congrats! Do you have any tips for juggling both bicycle and camera? I’ve been trying to get some shots around Atlanta, but by the time I get the camera out and turned on, it’s too late. :(
November 12, 2009 at 10:27 |
Still trying to figure it out. I’ll be sure to post if and when I find a good set-up.
November 12, 2009 at 14:49 |
For those shots, the pocket-sized point-and-shoot is best. It’d be hard to handle a DSLR and still steer the bike.
November 12, 2009 at 10:01 |
Congrats on a new job and the new camera! New toys are always fun, so I’m sure all will be excited to see what you snap shots of in your adventures.
November 12, 2009 at 10:02 |
Step-Through,
Like I mentioned above, I keep my camera in a handlebar bag.
Here’s what I use for mounting a video camera to the bars.
My brother, who uses a light-weight point-and-shoot camera, made a handlebar mount out of a soft drink bottle and some spare parts.
November 12, 2009 at 10:46 |
Love the photos! And congratulations on your job!
November 12, 2009 at 11:02 |
Good news indeed in the new job. And a charitable organization to boot. Congratulations! I wonder, from a metaphysical standpoint, if doing lawyering for a charity reduces the obligatory lawyer purgatory sentence in the the afterlife? I’ll have to consult my Santeria priestess. This would work out very well for you!
November 12, 2009 at 11:17 |
Congratulations on the job as well. More importantly, I hope the job has resulted in a bicycle commute which is to your liking.
November 12, 2009 at 12:31 |
Congrats on the job! I hate working contract and dealing with the recruiters at the agencies. They always want to take you out to lunch and say a bunch of quotes from Glengarry Glen Ross as if they wrote it.
That is a sweet camera. _Do_ go crazy with it. Please share what you learn about it as it relates to cycling. The night shot of downtown is fantastic. One reason that I like this blog is that you always have nice pictures. I look forward to many more.
November 12, 2009 at 12:46 |
Congratulations on the new job Dottie! I admire your brave decision to leave private practice and go for what you want. I have taken a year off to study and figure out my legal career and am now finding it hard to get back into the jobs market. It makes me happy to hear things can work out! In the meantime I have rediscovered the joy of cycling, thanks in part to your and Trisha’s wonderful blog.
November 13, 2009 at 08:44 |
Thanks, Jen, and good luck to you!
November 12, 2009 at 13:03 |
Congrats, Dottie. I only know you through the blogosphere, but I do believe your new non-profit is darn lucky to have you!
November 12, 2009 at 13:40 |
Congratulations, Dottie! You have a lot to celebrate! Sharing your joy in California…
November 12, 2009 at 14:19 |
Congratulations – high five (with the hand not holding the new camera)!!
November 12, 2009 at 14:36 |
Hey, that is a pretty good day! Well done!
November 12, 2009 at 14:51 |
Love that first photo of the head badge!
November 12, 2009 at 15:12 |
Well done!
As for the new Nikon, it will work with virtually ALL Nikon SLR lenses made over the past 40 years (unlike Canon!). (Your exposure meter wont work with the older, manual focus lenses, but that’s not a big issue with DSLR cameras where you can preview and then review each shot). Many of the manual focus lenses which are out of favor have incredible optics and can be had for a song on ebay. You can also find reasonable rental rates on all kinds of amazing Nikon lenses for a day or a weekend.
November 12, 2009 at 16:00 |
Best of luck with the new job, Dottie.
November 12, 2009 at 16:49 |
Love the photos and best of luck with the new job! Too exciting. :)
November 12, 2009 at 17:43 |
Major congrats on the new job. (Has got to beat contract doc review, any day of the week. :)
Great shots with the new camera, too. I’m a Canon man myself, but you will love the Nikon.
November 12, 2009 at 18:02 |
Congrats on the job! And as other posters have said, the badge pic is very good!
November 12, 2009 at 19:37 |
You’re so talented and wonderful in all you do and I’m so proud of you!
November 12, 2009 at 20:03 |
Congratulations!
Nice photos. I would love to visit Chicago, and see it from the bicycle of course.
Love your vintage style.
November 12, 2009 at 20:49 |
Congratulations!
November 12, 2009 at 21:49 |
Congrats! Congrats!
November 13, 2009 at 00:04 |
So jealous of your new camera! Many of my friends are into photography, and I’ll just tell you now… take all the advice with a grain of salt. Everybody confuses me when they try to teach me about my camera because they all have different vocabulary for talking about it. Get the info, but at the end of the day I’ve found that just practicing and changing this setting and that setting, etc, does wonders for figuring out what I like.
Also, everybody has a different style of picture taking. I get comments about how I should get this big flash thing… but I hate using flash. I have a normal lens and also a stubby lens. They are fun! Getting a remote control is on my to-do list. Will be handy for blogging!
Enjoy your new toy! And be prepared for your purse to be a lot heavier.
S*
November 13, 2009 at 08:45 |
Thanks! Your pictures are always beautiful, real professional quality in my opinion.
November 13, 2009 at 16:59 |
Oh yeah, and I totally forgot to say congrats about the job!
More Marc Jacobs for you!
:)))))
November 13, 2009 at 08:49 |
Congratulations on the job!
As the world’s worst photographer, my camera of choice is a Panasonic Lumix. It’s so idiot-proof, it even lets me take good pictures.
November 13, 2009 at 18:18 |
congrats on the new gig and camera. the shots already look good!
November 14, 2009 at 20:25 |
Congratulations on the new gig. I just hope it doesn’t mean less posting here. I look forward to reading your blog every day.
November 14, 2009 at 23:04 |
Hurray! Job! More money for bike things : )
November 16, 2009 at 08:06 |
congratulations on the job! woo hoo!!!!! may you have warm memories of your time enjoyed away, and may you find equilibrium in your days ahead.
November 19, 2009 at 23:57 |
(chiming in late, I know)
Hey, congratulations on both fronts! (I just got a D300 a few months ago and it has been a major life improvement.) Enjoy the Nikon glory!