Talk Nerdy To Me, Reviews and Such

I have a couple of matters to discuss.  First off, I ordered one of these pretty Silhouette bags to replace my black, boring, ugly, everybody-has-one camera bag.  I was really excited for it and once I had the box in my hands I tore through it, and "PHEWWW!!!! What's that SMELL?"   The bag smells like they threw a dead fish in with the bag.   So.Gross.  It looks gorgeous, but smells like fish. That must be what I get for ordering stuff online, grrrrrrr.  I am glad they are letting me return it. :( Maybe if it was real leather it would smell good. idk. bummer. :( I just want a cute camera bag. waaaaa.

Also, I also have had the chance to borrow my dad's lens.  It's a Tamron 18-270 f3.5-5.5.  I love the range this lens has, it's like three lens' at once.  One day when I was shooting in the backyard it started making this whirring sound and I'm like "ok, what's happening?"  Then I noticed that the auto focus stopped working.  I sent it in to the manufacturer and it was still covered with the warranty (Tamron warranty's their lenses for 6yrs, that's pretty good).

Apparently the gears stripped.  I don't know why and I don't know if this is a common occurrence but it happened nonetheless.  I'm glad that they are fixing it :) really painless.  Just thought I would share my experience.

Another thing on my goals list is to shoot more horizontal pictures.  Why do I rely so much on vertical? Most people like to hang up horizontal pictures, watch wide screen movies (not vertical movies), look from side to side whist looking around, so why do I take so many dang vertical pictures?  For some reason my subconscious thinks it's easier, so I have been trying to break that habit and see the world in a different format.  It's hard.  I found this article helpful to get it more into my brain.

I want to take a Nicole Class (I think) the Illustrator 101 class b/c pen tool, I hate you, and anchors&handles, I hate you, and uhhhh everything, I hate you!  It costs like a hundred dollars and I'm not really sure it will be worth it.  Has anyone taken one of these before?  What was your experience?  McKay tried to look up free videos for me because naturally he's trying to save some cash.here's what he came up with...

uhhh... I really don't know what to say. is this just as good as a Nicole class (just one is a thick Indian accent and the other one is a thick Utah accent?) Your opinion would be greatly appreciated.

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yay?

*facepalm*

Also, since we're on the issue of shopping and spending money let's talk about lenses too.  I would really like a 24-70 2.8.  And while we're at it a 14-24&70-200 (the holy trinity of lenses).  Wouldn't it be coool? wanna buy it for me... haha lol, just dreaming.