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While in England I had an oppurtunity to take some photos in limited light, and of water, which is an effect I’ve been wanting to try for a while. With the aid of some neutral density filters, I was able to have longer exposures in slightly better light, which allows more detail to come out, but still with the longer exposures. It results in an interesting ghostly effect with the water that I quite like. Ideally I think you really need to go to a 60 second exposure to get this effect looking really good, but my camera will do 30 seconds at the most, even with the cable release.

The photos I took with explanations in the descriptions are here. My favourite shot out of the set is this one:

My other photos from England will be online as soon as I get around to converting them all (done about 25% so far – still quite a few to go).

Our green cards.. our actual green cards (which are white, and credit card sized, incidentally) arrived. BCIS (AKA, INS) in “ahead of schedule by several months” complete and utter total shocker. I’m completely stunned, frankly. Wooh :)

Anyone have experience with the old paypal style donation button things? Are there better alternatives to paypal? I know Amazon has a similar thing as well.. anyone know if that’s particularly good? I know Paypal is evil so I’m somewhat inclined to avoid them if at all possible.. Any suggestions appreciated..