The Barnes Family

Author: tim

  • 2002

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    Dear Family and Friends, Wishing you a Happy New Year and a Happy Chinese New Year!! Gung Hay Fat Choy (Wishing you prosperity) as the Chinese would say. It’s hard to believe it’s been over a year since our house remodel has been completed. We’re continually doing things to turn our house into a home.…

  • Tim’s Blog

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    You can find it on the “Notes from the Road” link at the top of the page, or go directly to the blog site here. And if you’d like your very own copy, feel free to subscribe via my feed or Feedburner.

  • A place to tell our story

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    A family website can be many things. I hope we can use it to tell the story of some aspects of our lives as we travel and learn. We’re involved in lots of different things – sailing, music, holidays, and now a form of home schooling – we’ll try to take the time to let…

  • Nikon Capture NX – a recommendation

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    I’ve tried a lot of the raw processing software out there – RawShooter, Bibble Pro, Adobe Camera Raw (both the full version and the smaller version that you get with Photoshop Elements), and brief attempts to use the previous version of Nikon Capture and a couple of others. I really liked Bibble Pro, but I…

  • dpreview.com – the place for digital photography enthusiasts

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    The best place to learn about digital photography products is www.dpreview.com (Digital Photography Review) – it’s up to date with news, and also provides in-depth product reviews and a comprehensive set of forums (fora?) about many aspects of digital photography. Their research is more detailed and thorough than mine – if this blog has any…

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    I should point out that many of the pictures posted here were taken with film over the years and scanned in – but in any case, if you find them interesting, here they are. Posting photos on the web is problematic – you have to downsize them and compress them – neither practice is good…

  • Why two cameras?

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    It wasn’t my original plan. I was looking at the D50 and the D70s, and I was almost decided for the D70s when Nikon reduced the price of the D50. After using it for a while, I learned that it was capable of outstanding pictures. But it was also limited in a few specific ways…

  • My cameras

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    I use a couple of Nikon digital SLR cameras: the D50 and the D200. I started with the D50 as an entry point into DSLR photography having used less sophisticated cameras from Sony and Canon. I first learned about SLRs when studying architecture in New Zealand, and I think the digital SLR is now at…