The Evil Eyebrow

Month: September 2008

  • Slowly…waiting…dowloading….

    This year, I arrived a Dragon*Con with an 8 Gb compact flash card in my camera. This let me do two things:

    1. Buckle to the pressure and shoot in RAW + JPG
    2. Not need to switch out the card during the weekend

    Unfortunately, it takes a long time to download ~7 Gb to by computer through the card reader on my computer. It’s been going for 1.5 hours now and I think it’s about 70% done.

    I didn’t shoot the Dragon*Con parade (which I’ll explain later) so I managed to not need to switch out the card during the weekend. With my Canon Digital Rebel XT shooting on RAW + JPG, I had around 540 images to take. If I’d been at the parade, I know I would have exceeded that. So, for RAW, I need another 8 Gb flash card.

    At least I didn’t do what I did last year which was sprint out to pay an exiorbant amount of money to Wolf Camera for three 1Gb flash cards (and borrow a battery from a very kind friend. Thanks Annie!)

  • Chris/Kristin Won the Costume Contest!

    All right. I lied a bit about not blogging.

    Kristin and Chris brought a costume to Dragon*Con. Kristin made it, Chris wore it.

    They won the Audience Favorite award at the Masquerade last night! It was awesome.

    The only picture I can find at the moment is here. I’m sure there will be more soon.

  • Dragon*Con 2008 (immediate) Recap

    We’re home. We’re alive. We’re tired. As usual, Dragon*Con was a blast, both seeing cool famous people (Battlestar Galactica stars, Firefly Stars, Famous Authors, Not-so-famous Authors, etc.) and hanging out with people we know and like.

    Even as I type, the ~500 images I took are downloading to my computer, so you can expect some flickr photos sometime tonight.

    It was fun, but my creative energies are very tired. No blogging for me until later.