brainstorms

Tuesday June 28, 2005

gone diving...

this blog will be less active for the next three weeks, due to a much needed vacation break. i will either be under water with scuba gear someplace in the mediterranean or buried in a book near a beach, or photographing in some mosque. i expect i will have enough connectivity to get to gmail or maybe blog some notes, but nothing too well planned. photography will have to wait until i come back; i am going without a laptop to process my images.

scuba: after many years of scuba inactivity, did a refresher at scuba2000 a few days ago, and now as good as new for diving. it helps that years ago, i had a tough-as-nails instructor, dana winess, who also said to have trained navy seal divers. i remembered much more of my training than i thought i would. [always do the refresher at some local dive shop rather than some resort. costs much less.]

resolved to go for advanced and underwater photography training when i get back. alas, a good dive enclosure for D70 costs about as much as a D2X. may have to go for a nikonos instead.

[mosques are located here]

books: going away with steele, brin, sterling, dennett, connelly, sanford...