Odds and Ends

First, thank you for all your emails of support and encouragment for my mom.  This is one reason that the Internet is such an amazing thing – it brings strangers, old friends, and family together from around the world. I’m totally encouraged, thanks to your kind words. I’ts quite a community!

Photography: 

PPOC has published an art book with all the BEST images from this year’s National Image Salon, lucky for me, all 4 of my images are in it! As the Canadian Photographic Artist of the Year, I’m grateful for the efforts of the PPOC to publish this book, but not just for me, but because there are so many amazing images included. This was a very good year for creative photography!!! It’s a time capusle of photographic art, representing the best in Canada.

Yes, they are for sale, you can see the book here. You can see the images here.

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On another positive note, it seems Nikon lenses are (mostly) repair-able.  If you have a broken lens, whether you fell with all your gear on top of it (now who would be clutzy enough to do that I wonder?!), dropped it, or had a handfull of sand blow into it, here’s my recommeded procedure for getting it repaired right.  Yes it will cost you, in my case $500 USD!!!! But totally worth not having to buy a brand new lens.

1)  Take it to your local professional camera store (Not Best Buy, etc.).  I took mine to Don’t Photo, they have a Pro Desk, but they would take anyone’s gear if it needed repair.

2) Let them handle the work, from communication with the manufacturer; to shipping and receiving. No headaches, not paperwork about shipping your expensive stuff. Just pay the man when you get your "new" lens back.

3) Thoroughly test your lens once you get it back to make sure the damage has been suitably fixed.

No frustration, not pain – except for the price

I hope you’re never in the situation, but i’m told we will all experience the tragedy of broken gear at some point. In the case of a lens, let the pros take care of it for you.

Have a great Monday!