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Canon EOS 5D Mark II Price Break?

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The Canon EOS 5D Mark II has been selling faster than the stores can ship them since the camera was introduced last year. One effect of the combination of popularity and short supply has been that the pricing has held firm. (In fact, if you were not careful and/or patient you might have paid significantly more than the list price.)

While I don’t see the price of this camera dropping significantly any time soon, I now see that there Canon is doing a promotion that can take $100 of the price of the camera.

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First Light – Five Photographers Explore Yosemite’s Backcountry

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The Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite Valley blog has several post about the release of this new book by highly regarded and experienced Yosemite photographers Karl Kroeber, Scot Miller, Charles Cramer, Mike Osborne, and Keith S. Walklet. Photographs from the book will be on display at the Gallery until August 19. (I’ll be in Yosemite later this week – I’ll have to stop by!) More information about the book is available here, including a short video.

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New Post at California Nature Photographers Blog – Recent BW Photographs

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I just posted a set of recent black and white photographs from the Sierra Nevada and points east (the Mono Lake and June Lakes Loop area) over at the California Nature Photographers blog.

If you haven’t visited that web site yet, I encourage you to take a look and subscribe to the blog’s RSS new feedfeed. A group of us contribute posts to the site, providing a diversity of perspectives on the natural world in California.

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Tour de France: Not there to photograph it… but I do have photos of riders

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Lance Armstrong, Prologue, 2009 Amgen Tour of California

Lance Armstrong, Prologue, 2009 Amgen Tour of California. Sacramento, California. February 14, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Astana’s Lance Armstrong negotiates the first turn during the prologue stage of the 2009 Amgen Tour of California bicycle race.

If you are following the Tour de France (Go Lance! Second to Contador is great!) you might be interested in some of my bicycle racing photography. I’ve photographed the Tour of California several times and had the opportunity to get up close to riders and racing action. You’ll even see a couple close shots of Lance…

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