Pixlr - an excellent choice for photo editing

Pixlr (http://pixlr.com) is a a free online suite of photo editing applications
3 separate apps (describe)
Main app works, looks and feels like Photoshop:

Smooth, free, blah blah blah

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Christmas lights and ICM photography

Intentional Camera Movement blah blah blah
Long exposure with movement:

Long exposure w/ zoom

See many more examples here: Afterimage's Art Gallery

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Exoticars USA Open House

Exoticars USA
Milford, New Jersey
Automotive Repair & Restoration

We caught word of a Fall Open House at Exoticars USA and decided to take a nice morning drive up to Milford New Jersey to hopefully see a few nice cars and some car owners. It was a beautiful fall day, a perfect day to stretch the legs of my project car a 1986 Porsche 944 Turbo. On the way to ExoticarUSA we came across the Bucks County Exotic group on their monthly meet. How could we not stop by to see even more amazing cars. It was a great showing with a seriously nice variety of exotic and domestic pride.
We eventually left our new friends and continued on some amazing scenic roads towards our destination.
Sure enough these great roads lead to a beautiful facility with a parking lot overflowing with dream machines.
You really couldn't ask for a cooler location for an Exotic car shop. The changing leaves on the trees sure did hurt the atmosphere. Yellow and orange leaves set the back drop for these exotic beauties in some many different colors and models.
We eventually finished drooling outside and move to the lobby. AMAZING! The showroom was awesomely adorned with an automotive flair. Gas pumps, Lamborghini and Ferrari shields on the wall, a racecar and a flat track motorcycle to set the mood. Then we stumbled into the "engine room". A beautiful Lamborghini engine sat alone on a lift. Just an engine on a lift and it was gorgeous. The shop was spacious in size but packed with so many amazing cars. Show cars, cars in for repairs, a cool barn found Lamborghini Miura getting a full restoration, classic beauties from Ferrari and Lancia and a stunning Blue custom Maserati Roadster built by Wil de Groot.
So not only were the cars great but the people were great as well. Everyone very friendly and happy to talk about their cars and happy to have their cars photographed. We also had the pleasure to meet our hosts, Wil and Sandy de Groot, owners of Exoticars USA who were amazingly friendly and welcoming.
As always,we share our images with our hosts at any event and they likes our images enough that they used our photo for Facebook Cover!
Checkout the Gallery section on their website for a few more of our shots!

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Thanks to: Exoticars USA and Autofocus Photography
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Delaware River Canal

Blah blah blah
location

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St. Peter's Village

Blah blah balh Neat place, little shops, waterfall blah blah blah
brief SPV history and link

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Bushkill Falls

Blah blah blah
copy paste from BKF website

Gallery: Bushkill Falls

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Gear Review: Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5

Looking for an ultra wide angle lens I decided to give the Sigma 10-20mm f/3.5 a try. Saying the 10-20 is a wide angle lens is an understatement. At 10mm and close focus the lens acts more like a fisheye than a rectilinear lens; there's tons of stretching, bending, and distortion. This evens out when your focal point is at a distance but up close it's rather wild. It's not the sharpest lens in my bag but few UWA lenses are razor sharp and it's hardly "bad". Actually it's pretty good if you stop down to f/5.6 or so. I found the AF motor (Sigma's HSM) to be fast and quiet, rarely hunting for focus even in challenging light.

I'll say at this point I'm satisfied with the performance of the lens and give it a solid B+ based on my limited experience with it.

From Sigma's Website:

SPECIFICATIONS

Lens Construction	13 Elements in 10 Groups
Angle of View	102.4° - 63.8°
Number of Diaphragm Blades	7
Mininum Aperture	f22
Minimum Focusing Distance	24 cm / 9.4 in
Filter Size (mm)	82
Maximum Magnifications	1:6.6
Dimensions (Diameter x Length)	87.3 x 88.2 mm/3.4 x 3.5 in
Weight	520g / 18.3oz.
HSM - Hyper-Sonic Motor EX - EX Lens DC - DC for Digital Lens Hood: Petal Type * The appearance, specifications, and the like of the product are subject to change for improvement without notice. * Vignetting will occur if the lens is used with 35mm SLR cameras or digital cameras with image sensors larger than APS-C size. * Pentax mount, if the camera body does not support HSM, auto focus will not be available. * Nikon Mount Built in motor lens: compatible with D40, D40x, D60, D3000, D5000

Checkout some sample photos for the first outing here:
Sigma 10-20mm Sample shots

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