The Dingo Times

The Big Four Oh! Originally uploaded by anandmdhingra. Chip Fortin gets a surprise birthday party organized by who else? Karen! Turnout was great, the food was fabulous, and the laughter was plenty! Click here for the full slideshow, or click on the picture to the right to get to the beginning of the album.

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Don’t rub without permission Originally uploaded by anandmdhingra. Burial Hill, Marblehead MA. We had a great click and shoot with the BPC lead by Leigh Musicof. Great old slate gravestones with compelling epitaphs. Click on the photo to go thru to the rest of the gallery.

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sb-600-test19 Originally uploaded by anandmdhingra. My friend lent me an SB 600 to try out. I spent less than five minutes reading the manual. Here’s how I made out in a quick, five minute session. I start with the 18-200 VR at wide settings, then take the flash off the camera, consult the manual for [...]

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Taken at 2:32 pm, EST: I have never seen Amazon offline before! Makes you think twice about using S3 …

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Brevity is hard. Really hard. Sit down to write a story, and more often than not a stream of consciousness takes over, filling your copy with fluff that just doesn’t matter. Recently I was reading about Hemingway and The Original Short Story. Hemingway bet his friends that he could construct a short story in just [...]

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