Aloha…
Posted by Ben on February 8th, 2006
Well, if you haven’t been in the loop, Marcie and I are in Hawaii right now…as we speak, I’m sitting about 50 feet from waves breaking on the south shore of Kauai. Such a rough life, huh?
We’ve been having a great time so far. We hiked a little of the Na Pali coast (made famous in the helicopter scenes in Jurassic Park), checked out a lot of beaches, went snorkeling, took a few other cool hikes, and just enjoying not being at work. 
(sorry, Krafties!)
We’ve been giving the camera quite a workout - in a week, we’ve shot over 900 pictures, and there’s some definite keepers in there. The 18-200 VR lens is a rock-star - I can hand-hold shots nowhere near possible otherwise, especially since I don’t have the steadiest of hands at times (ie, after a long uphill hike). As you’d probably expect from any sub-$1000 lens, it’s not tack-sharp wide-open, but I’m a fan of the “f/8 and be there” school of shooting, so the lens is great there.
I’ve also been playing with some macro photography of flowers and the like, so once I’ve processed some shots, they’ll go up online.