Why not

It's been a while since I've taken any pictures of myself, and when I got home there was just enough light left to snap a few pictures of what I was wearing today. This sweater is pretty much my favorite sweater, and although it looks excellent with the bow tie in the last picture under it, I wore a long tie today. I thought about changing to the bow tie for the pictures, but how could I resist that little dimple under the knot? I simply couldn't!

Yeah, I'm kind of a nerd when it comes to men's clothes. I'm way too into them. If I'm at my computer and I'm not on Flickr, there's a good chance I'm perusing a menswear blog instead. It can definitely be an expensive obsession sometimes, but so are cameras!

Multi Me Dia

Here's some more of me for your Monday.  Taken yesterday, and no, there is not any photoshop trickery here.  I don't take enough pictures at f/1.8.  I've got this fast lens and I'm always shooting landscapes and stuff like that with smaller apertures to get more in focus.  This was at 1.8.  Sweet.

Exif information
Model	Canon EOS 20D
Original date	2010:04:25 7:31 PM
Exposure time	1/50 sec
Focal length	50mm
F-Stop	f/1.8
ISO speed	ISO-100
Exposure Bias	0

Me for Monday

Here's a little bit of me for your Monday.  I took this back in July of 2009 while in Vidalia, Georgia.

Exif information
Model	Canon EOS 20D
Original date	2009:07:23 4:33 PM
Exposure time	1/4 sec
Focal length	18mm
F-Stop	f/3.5
ISO speed	ISO-100
Exposure Bias	0

New Equipment!

As I alluded to in Slender-Snouted Crocodile, I recently bought a new piece of equipment; a vertical battery grip.  It's a pretty sweet little accessory for my camera.  It attaches to the bottom of my camera and has a shutter button and all of the other necessary buttons for me to control the exposure of my photographs while holding the camera in the portrait orientation.  It also holds two batteries which were included in my purchase.  When I bought it I figured it would be nice to have while shooting in portrait, but I hadn't expected it to be as much fun as I have found it to be.  Having this should encourage me to shoot vertically more often.  I don't regret this purchase for a second.

You can see the new grip at the bottom of my camera in this self-portrait I took while in Texas last week.