Wow. A new look.

Yeah I got bored.  I work somewhere between Stepford* and a closed Disney World under construction.  It is truely a bizarre place.

In the morning from over 20 miles away I join a queue of builders vans heading over to the place, crawling along impractically designed country roads.  Then just before I arrive at my office, the roads open up into four lane American highways and you enter Stepford itself.

The place is soulless, scatterings of new empty buildings and mothers pushing lost children around in push-chairs.  We have a supermarket as the epicentre of social entertainment.

Anyways, as you can imagine, dancing on Tellytubbie** Hill during lunchtime is about as good as it gets around here, so I decided on a blog face-lift.  I hope you all approve.

I've decided against my better judgement to open up my blog too.  It's public and publically commentable.  This will probably be my undoing, but I've done it none-the-less.

At least someone has the chance to negatively comment if they so wish.  So enjoy, and try not to flame too hard.

--- Justin.

*Phew - they remade the film, people will finally understand what I'm talking about.
** Yup - we have a man-made grassy knoll that we've nicknamed Tellytubbie Hill.

Arty cat. 

The winner!!! 

The embittered loosers, sorry, other contestants. 

Take the mike. 

Thank the host. 

Wave to the crowd. 

Translator #1 making it up as she went along. 

A cheeky HDTV camera guy.

The director giving us our audience training.  Sit, smile, clap.  Sit, smile, clap.  Frown, cough, choke, nono, clip sit smile, oh geeez. 

TV Panoramic. For anyone in Japan this might be familar, for everyone else ... what the heck? This is the stage for a Japanese singing contest. It aired live on Saturday (8pm Japanese time) and consisted of the strangest crowd of contestants ever amassed. 

Yawn! Another cat. 

And the second Dragon Fly! Up close. 

Dragon Flies! Caught in the act. This is probably the hardest thing I've photographed to date. I'm still not happy with the exposure, but at least I'm improving! 

Wow. My new VR 70-200mm lens (with a x1.5 multiplier due to the D70's CCD). First shot at 300mm. Click on the huge image, and zoom on it - you'll see spider webs and even a bee. I'm impressed. 

Is this a happy or sad cat? Caught with my D70 in continious shooting mode. Who's a clever cat? 

First outdoor shot from my Nikon D70. I'm very pleased. A nice balanced camera with plenty of camera control scope. More importantly I can use different lenses and not suffer any chromic aberations.