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Over this past year, I have considerably retooled my photographic tools repertoire. The goal of this has been to highly improve the quality and ability to take pictures versus where I started at five years ago.

First, the hardware has now been rationalized to:

On the software front, using 64-bit MacOS X Snow Leopard as the basis on my original first-generation Mac Pro and last-generation MacBook Pro – I am leveraging:

With this, I feel that my next set of photographic endeavors will definitely be a step-up from those in the past. I can’t wait! San Francisco 2011 #72 a photo by rdonovan on Flickr.

My pictures are back from my trip to San Francisco and Napa 2011. This journey was the first trip with the 1D Mark IV. Overall, it has proven to be absolutely worth it in every respect. The biggest letdown is the lack of sharpness in the 24-105mm L-series lens – perhaps time to look around and upgrade at long last.

Enjoy the sets: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rdonovan/collections/72157626218481178/




