I’ve been trying to decide on a compact camera to accompany my 40D SLR for a while. I finally decided on a Panasonic DMC-LX3 recently, mainly due to its very wide angle fast lens (compared to most other compacts).  So far I like it, ideally it would be a bit smaller, and ideally it’d have less noise. So far I really like the wideness and the explicit flash switch. I’ll see if I do carry it everywhere/take a lot more pics which is the goal. Last night we went to Steve & Christine to for a quick bbq and then watch Religulous (pretty entertaining)

Here’s Steve carrying some steak that caught fire

Christine and Thomas

Then today we went to Boat St. Cafe with Keena,Jorge and Gabriel… Keena got Lasik and now has debris under one of her eye flaps..eww. Anyway, the wideness is handy for self portraits.

The macro is decent too

The other question I have in my mind is whether to upgrade my real camera to a 5dmk2 or just buy a wide lens for my 40d..(which would have to be EF-S..bleh. 

Someone hacked into my paypal account on thursday and tried to withdrawl $600. It wasn't a "Pallin" attack as my password wasn't re-setted.  Paypal was great, called me right away asking if it was my transaction, locking my account and marking the transaction as unathorized (the withdrawl from 1st tech was still triggered so i had to call them to block that as well).

My password wasn't trivial so i'm really curious how exactly they got it....

We spent the weekend in Banff for Steve's wedding and it was super fun, all of Sunday was spent driving around taking pictures; I have a LOT of post-processing and rating to do but I figured I'd post at least one picture today.

When we were driving back from Lake Louis fairly late we were lucky enough to see a Grizzly rolling around and then eating dandelions

Tons of people stopped and he ended up running across the freeway (I'll post some pictures of that and the rest of the trip later).

Gabriel and I went up to Skagit flats today. We were hoping to get some good pictures but totally weren't expecting the crazy cool gazillion Snow Goose we saw. We ended up getting really really close to them and saw them fly around quite a few times (there were a few bald eagles around and the goose were spooked by them).

Here are a few pictures

We played quite a bit on saturday night at lota's, it's awesome, of course my favorite thing was to sing, I got a 100% on Radiohead's Creep on medium. Oh i also played around with my new flash.