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To quote my cousin Ryan, Earl was a “hurrican’t”, and we got nothing but a light breeze and a few drops of rain in Cape May. However, he did provide for some cool-ish skies the nights before and after. The colors on the pre-Earl pictures were the wildest. Here’s a few, all from during or right after sunset. (Because of it’s position on the tip of the Dirty Jerz, you can watch the sunset over the water here.) I’m too lazy to Photoshop, so these are right out of the camera, reduced slightly for the web.

After several failures in my hunt to find a decent, cheap case for the iPad, I believe we finally have a winner! The ZooGue Smart Case was on sale recently at buy.com, and the features seemed to align with what I was looking for: multiple horizontal viewing angles, comfortable to use in landscape (which is how I prefer to read), clean look, easy in and out, and finally, durable (read: two year old proof). The case doesn’t have the most refined of looks to it because the mechanism for holding it up at any angle you’d like is Velcro, but it’s all black, so it’s not too obnoxious. The case has a strap for use holding the iPad on the back of headrest and despite never having used it for that I both like having the option, and have found that it’s great for holding a small notepad (explanatory picture in the gallery). The case allows for access to all the ports and switches on the iPad, but if you find you need to, there’s an easy to release strap and button on one side. The stitching on the case is holding up well after a few weeks of use and although over a long period of time that the Velcro will likely start to show some signs of wear, I still think it s a good buy and would recommend this case.

I posted a few of these to Tumblr to try it out, but it seems like scale them down considerably. Here’s the best one of the bunch (I think), slightly cropped:

You can view the others here if you missed the Twitter link.

Some fun with the new camera! Although I think there’s a lot to learn about it, the D5000 takes pretty nice photos right out of the box. Here’s a few shots as I wondered around the house/yard shooting whatever happened to be in front of me.