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On my September 2008 trip to Montana my schedule left me with some time to visit Glacier National Park.  Below are some of the images I captured.

UPDATED: Links to the new video site.
Sample Video: EOS 5D Mark II
REVERIE, an independently-produced video by Explorer of Light Vincent Laforet
This video was shot with a pre-production Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital SLR. The files used to create this video were not manipulated in any way, only re-compressed for ¼ resolution display on our [...]

DPReview.com: Exclusive Canon EOS 5D Mark II Samples Gallery
Pre-Photokina 2008: We’ve had a Canon EOS 5D Mark II for a few days now and the London weather has been kind enough to give us one sunny afternoon in which to grab a quick (40 image) samples gallery. Note that this gallery was shot with a [...]

Inside Digital Photo – Special Report
Chuck Westfall on Canon – EOS 5D Mark II

Listen to Chuck Westfall, Technical Advisor with the Professional Products Marketing Division of the Consumer Imaging Group with Canon U.S.A., Inc. joins host Scott Sheppard for a special report with preview of their new Canon EOS 5D Mark II. Chuck explains some of [...]

A lot of excitement has been generated over the announcement of the new Canon 5D mark II.  After three years, this much anticipated camera offers a lot of horse power.

Wordpres 2.6.2 has been completed.  The problems I had were quickly resolved due to the Wordpress forum help. 
I did lose some files due to a bad backup, however the database was good and the images lost were easily recovered. 
It appears I’m back in the blogging business.

I had a delightful visit to the Wildlife Safari on September 5th and 6th. A drive through on Friday with my 1D Mark III I took some shots for a class I was teaching the following morning. We had a great presentation and the group was a lot of fun. This was one of my first trainings with a mixed group of camera owners. We had Canon, Nikon and Pentax owners as well as a lot of people using point and shoots.

Anyone moving from a standard cell phone to the iPhone will agree that it has great features but the battery life has much to be desired.   This of course put me on a search for an external battery that would allow me to watch movies or extend the use for taking notes in long meetings.  Below are a two impressive batteries that I tried.  However, only one performed as expected.