RIP Ryan Rendleman

Ryan Rendleman, 22, graduating senior at SIUC, was killed today in an auto accident at a road construction zone on highway 127 near Carbondale, IL. He was a photojournalism student, my photo editor for the Fall 2007 semester, and a hell of a great guy. He was kind, well-liked and faithful. I wonder why Ryan was taken from us, but I know he is now with God, the one true God whom he believed in and loved.

Good bye, friend, until we meet again.

A breaking news story about the accident can be found at http://www.thesouthern.com/articles/2008/04/29/breaking_news/doc4817eaa6cc637544700840.txt

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Canon Powershot G9

So I got a Powershot G9 today in the mail, a used one I purchased off of eBay to replace my Sony HDV video camera I sold. It was pretty cheap and in good condition and it came with a card, so I went for it. These are some of the pictures I took with it today. It's really nice, it's metal and it's built like an old film camera, with an ISO dial on top and a circular command dial on the back like the pro Canons. It's got a 6x optical zoom, a built-in stabilizer, a 12.1 megapixel sensor, a hotshoe, a bigass 3" screen, RAW file format and fully manual shooting modes. Also it has a macro mode that focuses as close a 1cm to things. The image quality is decent and perfect for web video and, considering how much I hate point and shoot cameras, it's probably the only one I'd ever want to own!


Also I took this picture of deer out the window while I was driving to Larned, KS yesterday. There were four deer and two of them jumped across the street in front of me and the other two ran around in the field and looked at me, the two I took the picture of. It was with my 20D, not the G9.


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Look, ma! No sensor dust!

Took some photos with my 20D today while driving 2.5 hours back from Ashland, where I did some portraits of a student for the upcoming First Hour Honor Tab. I got my 20D back yesterday from Canon and it's nice and clean and they replaced the CF reader thing and redid some of the rubber and fixed the grip to where it doesn't come loose anymore and its like a brand new one!

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