Far from the world of you and I

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What's up? 

I haven't been on for a long time. I managed to pass the EOD course. The final exam was a beast, I got four cases of unexploded ordnance, and managed to clear three of them without a hitch, which is enough to get me through. I even managed to clear a nasty IED 8-) Now I've taken my place as a EOD team leader, with my team still in training :D So basically all I do now is gym and errands for my superiors. Been spending a lot of time behind the wheel of a Defender for sure :D Now that I'm basically expendable for a while, I get to spend my plentiful stock of holidays :D I think I'm finally close to getting rid of my braces.


EOD by ThePhotoWatcher

We got this specialization patch on our uniforms from the course.

I have been steadily spending money to upgrade my photo kit. I bought the Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G DX lens. I like it for portraiture and because of the speed. I also bought a remote trigger to get those steady long exposures, a battery grip for my D7000 to make it more stable and increase performance (plus the thing looks like a beast now ;) ), a full glass Hoya ND400 filter and one of those tripods with bendy legs for close-up. Last but not least my Cokin filter kit with various ND, ND grad, polarizer and UV filters is being shipped to me as I write. I'm still looking for a ringflash, some reflectors and most likely I'll be picking up the Photoshop Elements 12 sometime.

That gets us to another thing. My laptop's hard drive got fried last weekend and it can't even boot. And you'll probably guess that I haven't had time to do backups of my files... So I lost all the photos on that drive. Well, wasn't that much of a loss as I haven't had time to shoot much because of the army. Still lost the photos of last summer drifting events and such :/ Well I'm glad I have something on our home desktop which I'm on right now. Today I took the poor thing to the store for diagnostics and repairs. Warranty will hopefully still be in place to cover it :)

I'm skipping the site manager studies I planned for; I'm going to be a photographer Nod I applied for a few nice places around the country. Let's hope I make it in :D As a backup I applied for a machinery engineer study, which also sounds interesting, so ain't bad for a backup :D

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Fuugis's avatar
Äääh, toi koneen hajoaminen ja kuvien katoaminen on just se asia mitä kauhulla odotan joskus mullekkin tapahtuva D:
(liikaa tärkeitä kuvia tallennettuna koneelle, onneks osa on sentään pistetty talteen myös erilliselle kiintolevylle)

Mihin hait opiskeleen valokuvausta? : )