21st St.

I was on my way to Charleston this morning to have lunch with some friends of mine when I saw this huge header of smoke in Dunbar, so I hopped off the interstate and went to check it out.  It was apparently a vacant house that had been boarded up for a while.  When I got there, there were no firefighters inside attacking the fire and it looked as if they had it somewhat under control.  I stood around awhile and talked to a couple of people I knew and as I was leaving I could see that the fire had spread to the garage and was about ready to take off so I waited around 'til it did.

My Gals

A couple of shots of my gals from this weekend.

Probably nobody cares or notices, but my new camera nails the focus.  Whatever you put the chosen focus point over, it's in focus.  It's probably hard to see with these smaller pictures, but when you view the originals at 100% it's awesome.  My previous camera couldn't achieve this critical of focus with such ease, if at all.

In the top photo I put the focus point over my daughters left eye.  It's amazingly sharp.  In the bottom photo the focus point was over Kim's right eye.  It's also extra sharp.  These were taken hand held with the Canon 15-85 mm image stabilized lens.  I've used that lens on my 30D without nearly the same results.  The combo of the Canon 60D and that lens is super.

Don't get me wrong, I've taken a bunch of good photos with my 30D, it just seemed that I had to work hard to get it to perform.  Oh well, blah blah blah, double blah.  I like my new camera.

Lantz

Got a new camera yesterday and was itching to try it out this morning.  I had to go to the store for some milk so I took my new toy and took a couple shots while I was out.  This is a building in Saint Albans.  I've said that if I ever win the lottery we're gonna buy it and make it into our house.  That would be cool.