Filed Under Photography
I really recommend checking out Boston.com’s Big Shots in this week in sports. I have really grown to love looking for boston.com’s “Big Shots” pages when they put them together.
This edition is a collection of great photos taken in the sports world this week.
Not only are they great shots, but bravo to the Boston.com team for making sure we get to see them in great quality resolution at a decent size to enjoy!
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Filed Under Close To Home
Worcester the heart of Massachusetts has fallen victim to an infestation of the Asian Longhorn Beetle. It seems that this critter made its way into the US as a stow away in wooden packaging materials. It lives and breeds inside of certain types of trees and wood products.
We began to catch wind of this in the Burncoat area of Worcester about a year ago when we received a flyer detailing that certain areas of the city were infested. Those areas were then instructed to follow strict disposal of tree limbs and debris from trees in infested areas. Rather quickly, a pretty large area of Worcester and some surrounding suburbs had been quarantined, meaning no debris from the tress in the area bigger than one square inch could leave the quarantined area and had to be handled by certified tree removal teams.
We did not hear anything with regards to this problem for quite some time, until one Saturday morning, where a suspicious character was getting suited up in “climbing” gear (harness the whole works) and was climbing the trees in our front yards. I found this rather odd, as this doesn’t happen every day. (If it does in your area, I would love to hear about it! 
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After asking the man the simple question of what on earth he was doing, he informed me that he worked for the USDA and was inspecting trees for infestation.
Sure enough our area became infested and as you can see from the picture I posted above, all of the trees in our area will be removed. They started in our end of the street early this morning, and to be honest made quick work of cutting them down.
The unfortunate part of all this is I believe it will take away a large part of the character and appeal this particular neighborhood had. The Burncoat area has always been a very scenic neighborhood with older style homes and the large trees. According to the city, eventual a “reforrestation” process will be worked in and trees less susceptible to the beetle infestation will be re-introduced.
I surely hope the city follows through with this to restore a large part of the scenery around these parts.
If you are interested in finding out more about this, you can read about it here from the Worcester city home page on the infestation.
If you are reading this and from around an area that is also affected by this, feel free to drop a comment on this post!
Filed Under Photography, Technology
After several days of watching a marketing teaser on the Canon official website, the camera we have all be waiting for has been announced! Destined Evolution!
The Canon 5D Mk II, 21.1 MP and a 1080 HD Movie Mode! Take that Nikon!!! =)
For a link to the Canon Website complete with sample images and all the gory details, Click Here!
Now on to watching the continuing battle between camera companies and hopefully find out price of this thing soon, then I can finally decide to either save up for this or just settle for the lens that comes with this camera on my Digital Rebel XT.
Filed Under Photography, Technology
Looks as if Nikon is trying to take some of the noise away from Canon’s announcements with the official introduction today of the D90. This is an update to the D80 which I think is a great camera from Nikon. Interestingly enough along with the normal improvements (FPS value, Resolution, AF improvements) Nikon has managed to add a Video feature to this camera, so the camera will also record HD video allowing you to shoot 320 x 216 pixels, 640 x 424 pixels or HD720p (1,280 x 720 pixels) movies at the professional smoothness of 24 frames per second in motion JPEG format! That is a neat bonus!
Click here for a link to a post about the D90 on Photography Bay.
This is a video of Chase Jarvis RAW advance testing the D90.
Pretty straight forward release, here are some of the specs:
Filed Under Photography, Technology
Well it is finally here folks and with a Digic 4 Processor! It’s the 15.1 MP Canon 50D!
Here is the official page over at Canon USA.
And here is an overview of the Feature Highlights/Specs:
Looks like a lot of great stuff from Canon! Now, the question for me is do I go with this one? Or wait for the next 5D update! =)
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