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The Best Selling Nikon D7000 Digital SLR

Digital SLR Cameras for Photographing Italy

Italy is incredibly photogenic, and really is a photographer’s delight. This is something I know about being a keen amateur photographer myself. However, if you want to create really memorable photographs of Italy from which you can create framed prints to hang on your wall, you could do with a digital SLR.

Why a digital SLR and not a smaller more compact point and shoot?

Di’s Great Photo Giveaway

Photographer Di, whose work I love, is having a little photo themed prize draw. All you need to do to get 2 of her photographs, enlarged and printed up to 30x45cms in size and mailed to you, where ever you are in the world, is to visit her site and leave a comment. The prize draw is Sunday 11th January 2009.

Urban Love

This is a photo I took this morning. The champagne bottle with rose and glass had been abandoned just around the corner from my house here in Milan.

Wandering Woman Di Does Genova

Fellow blogger, photographer, and Kiwi, Di Mackey spent some time in Genova, Italy recently. Di does portrait shoots, and her fame has even spread as far as Italy.

Wonders of Milan

On Saturday, we took the wee one who must be occupied for a trip up to Como, but the big one, me, who must take

Bokeh Effect

This was a photo I forgot about. It’s an attempt to see what kind of bokeh I can achieve with my Tamron 28-75 F2.8 lens.

Guilty!

Our little one made a mess in the bathroom.

Via Prina, Milan

An example of my digital photography using a wide angle 12-24 mm lens on my Canon digital slr.

Wide Angle

I added a second lens to my camera gear recently. It’s a Tokina 12-24 f/4.0 wide angle. I’ve still to learn how to use it