What a week. I am safely at my girlfriend's flat after being stranded for 4 days due to the winter storm that blew through here last weekend. Somewhat ridic since the only real reason that I was stranded was because the subdivision area I live in and the local DoT, betwixt the two of them, could not figure out how to get the main drag plowed 4 days after the snowfall. So what's a geek to do? I packed several bags of gear for the stay, since I have no real idea when I will be back.

My largest science experiment was figuring out how to make the GearWERKZ audio studio suddenly portable. Most of this gear has basically gone unused for the two years since I bought it, and hence I do not have the schema in my head that I do for other equipment loadouts that allows me to make quick emergent pack-outs of gear. This was all new. I'll be addressing some of those issues in a later post.

What I was able to pack quickly was my camera kit for this off-site period.

The gear pictured is as follows: Dolica ST-300 Tripod, Sony DSC-S750 Point-and-Shoot Digital Camera, Bower SFD2965 Flash, Compact Flash Cards (32GB and 2GB), Minolta 50mm FFL Lens, +2 Macro Lens Filter, Sony Alpha a350 dSLR Camera w/75-300mm Telephoto Lens and orange Color Filter attached. Not pictured is my gearbag for this trip, a LowePro CompuDaypak.

Today was a day to wrap up Christmas shopping, so there was not much time for picture taking. I am still struggling with ideas for a good photo shoot, what with all the snow still piled on the side of the roads. Might be a good time to hit Flickr and try and get some ideas. I'll post something here if I figure out anything worthwhile. Until then, Happy Holidays!

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