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Sunday, July 31, 2005 Saturday and Sunday we visited Antelope Canyon. Our first trip to this Navajo Nation park was in 2002. My journal notes from that trip note that it was very crowded and difficult to photograph. We overcame these troubles on this trip by going Saturday, reviewing our images that night, and paying the extra $ to stay an additional hour on Sunday. This strategy, combined with a better camera, tripod, and remote, produced some great images. 
Comments Friday, July 29, 2005 Greetings from the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. It's only 10 miles from the South Rim ("as the raven flies") but it's over 200 miles. It was definitely worth the trip though - beautiful views, no crowds, cool temperatures and easy hiking. ) ) ) Taken with a Nokia 3650 Cameraphone - View all cameraphone pictures Comments Thursday, July 28, 2005 With the conference over, my vacation began today. We left Las Vegas a little after 8am - it was already 102! The rental car place was out of the full size car that we reserved, so we're driving around in a Chrysler Pacifica - it's about as large as our loft! ) We stopped for breakfast in a town right before the Hoover Dam - can't remember the dam name. Spent the morning making dam stupid jokes. ) ) The highway from Vegas to the Grand Canyon actually crosses the Hoover dam. We were there around 10am and stopped to walk around a bit. The water wasn't flowing, but it is still an impressive structure with cool deco embellishments. ) We arrived at the Grand Canyon before 2pm. The weather is great - in the 80's, but with a nice breeze. Spent the afternoon driving from viewpoint to viewpoint. ) It's high season here, and the popular spots are quite crowded - mostly non-American tourists too - gaggles of Germans, flocks of French, and crowds of Chinese. Tonight we went into town to the "Yippie Ei O Steakhouse". Not surprisingly, it wasn't too good, but certainly enough to hold us over until breakfast. Tomorrow we're going on an early morning photography walk, and then plan to hit some of the viewpoints that we missed today before heading off to the North Rim. Taken with a Nokia 3650 Cameraphone - View all cameraphone pictures Comments Wednesday, July 27, 2005 The conference is officially over and I'm all done with my presentation. It was...Interesting. I'd rehearsed the timing a lot during my free time here. I organized what I wanted to say in order to avoid any time-wasting rambles. What I did not factor in, however, was a fire alarm about half way through my presentation! Yep - the sirens, the flashing emergency lights, the "please stay calm, we are investigating the source of the alarm" announcements. So for the remainder of my presentation I alternated between giving the flight attendant speech ("emergency exits are located at the back left and back right of this conference room But all in all it went fine - the room was quite full, which surprised me since I was the last session on the last day. Walking back to the hotel the Bellagio water show erupted - a fine conclusion to my conference-going experience. ) Taken with a Nokia 3650 Cameraphone - View all cameraphone pictures Comments Monday, July 25, 2005 Greetings from Las Vegas ) I'm here for the International Conference on Human Computer Interaction. We're the geeks walking around with the blue bags :) The conference is at Caesar's Palace. ) Gotta love Las Vegas in the summer-time. It's been over 100 the entire time that I've been here. The air conditioning inside, however, is blowing full force - like 60 degrees - so you roast when you are outside and freeze when you are inside. I pass this outdoor cafe on my daily walk over to Caesar's - at first I thought, "an outdoor cafe, are you absolutely insane?" but it turns out that it's quite pleasant in the shade under the misters. ) The keynote speech was WAY above my head - something about brain based devices. I spent most of the 30 minutes during the speech trying to figure out the wearable devices on the two guys in front of me. ) And of course, the announcement about the 2007 conference caught my attention, because it's in Beijing! ) I'm staying at Bally's which is diagonally across the street from Caesar's. The walk from my room to the conference takes about 15-20 minutes, 10 of which are in the sweltering sun (hence my excitement about the outdoor cafe misters). ) My room is quite large, with a king sized bed, a sofa, and two desks. ) I face West, so I have a view of the airport and some of the hotels along the Strip. ) ) ) Here's the view at night - note the vertical beam of light coming from the Luxor hotel. ) Haven't done too much other than attend conference sessions and try to get over the China jet lag - which due to the 2 hour time difference between Chicago and Las Vegas has now morphed into me crashing at 6pm, waking up completely confused during the middle of the night, and then waking up for good around 5am. Nothing like headed over to the gym when people are still out from the night before :) Taken with a Nokia 3650 Cameraphone - View all cameraphone pictures Comments Sunday, July 24, 2005 Up early again - this time it is the shadow of Morgan's head and Bailey's tail that caught my photographic attention. ) Taken with a Nokia 3650 Cameraphone - View all cameraphone pictures Comments Saturday, July 23, 2005 The jet lag continues. Today I was up a little after 3 - blech! At least there's stuff to photograph. 
Comments Thursday, July 21, 2005 I got home from the airport yesterday around 4 and struggled to stay awake until a little after 9. Slept a good six hours and was then awake with no hope of going back to sleep. At least there was a good sunrise. 
Comments Wednesday, July 20, 2005 My last day in Taipei began with room service. ) I flew United from Taipei to Tokyo. The flight was a little over three hours and I had the absolute BEST seat in business class - 9a. No row in front or in back and had more leg room than I knew what to do with. ) My layover in Tokyo was only about an hour and it was spent in the United lounge. During this short time I spotted three "Good Luck Cats". ) ) ) The plane from Tokyo to Chicago was a 747 and I snagged a seat in the upstairs section. ) The best part of these seats is the cubby hole storage area between the seat and window. Very nice for an obsessive organizer like myself :) ) The flight home was 11 hours, which passed remarkably fast. I went to sleep right after the lunch service (Tokyo was still on the inflight map) and woke up somewhere over Montana when it was time for the fruit plate meal. A few hours later I was FINALLY home. Now all I have to do is unpack, wash all my clothes, conquer jet lag, and repack since I leave Sunday for a conference. Taken with a Nokia 3650 Cameraphone - View all cameraphone pictures Comments Tuesday, July 19, 2005 My final day in Taipei was spent in meetings at the National Palace Museum. Several pieces in their collection are simply beyond words - two of my favorites are an olive stone carved into an intricate boat and an ivory set of seventeen concentric spheres. You can view the details of these two items in this section of their web site. For our last meal, our host took us to the Grand Hotel. The lobby was a massively huge and impressive space, and featured the largest orchid arrangement that I've ever seen. ) The restaurant serves Cantonese food - all nice and recognizeable with not one "delicacy". The sweet and sour pork was served in a very interesting bowl that we think was made of those light/crispy shrimp cake things. ) ) As with all meals on this trip, the meal concluded with a plate of fresh melon (this one also included pineapple, honeydew, and a fruit from Southern Taiwan that had the texture of an apple but tasted like a pear/peach/pommegranite). ) After dinner we went to see the view from the banquet room on the 10th floor. The room was occupied by the Rotary Club, who was having their innagural celebration which included aboriginal and military skits. ) It was clear that it was the end of their meal, because industrial carts-loads of melon were being wheeled in. An appropriate end to my time in Taipei. ) Taken with a Nokia 3650 Cameraphone - View all cameraphone pictures Comments Monday, July 18, 2005 
Comments After a night of listening to rain hitting the window, I woke up to water dripping from one of the recessed lights in the ceiling. ) I called the front desk and the hotel sent someone who informed me that there was water dripping from the recessed lights in the ceiling. Gee, thanks :) The weather this morning was pretty blustery, but nothing like the hurricane that I experienced in North Carolina. ) The hotel seemed to have everything under control - they even had their staff camping out in the basement to ensure no interruption of any services. The only way you'd even know there was a typhoon (aside from the water pouring from the ceiling) was the re-enforced entrances. ) Since all of Taipei was essentially shut down today, the meetings that were scheduled for today have been rescheduled for tomorrow (which means I'll be back in Chicago on Wednesday instead of Tuesday). I'm down to my last granola bar ! Taken with a Nokia 3650 Cameraphone - View all cameraphone pictures Comments Sunday, July 17, 2005 Weather didn't look too bad this morning. ) Today's activity was a visit to the National Palace Museum. A lot of the museum is under construction - it took us about 2.5 hours to tour the parts that were open. ) ) I spotted this sign in the elevator - NO idea what it means :) ) As with most of my museum excursions, I kept an eye out for monkeys. A lot of the pieces were so small that they the display included a magnifying glass. This piece features a monkey on the back of a horse. ) And these two feature the "Monkey King" ) ) The weather started to get bad around lunchtime. The hotel posted a tracking map to keep the guests informed. ) I had a few free hours so I went over to Taipei 101. Most of the ground floor windows and doors are taped and sandbagged. ) ) ) The elevator ride to the 89th floor passed quickly - after all, the elevator is traveling 60 miles per hour! ) Once at the top, the view was pretty good considering the weather. ) ) By the time that I got back to the hotel the weather was pretty bad. I could barely see Taipei 101 from across the street. ) For dinner our host took us to a Sichuan restaurant - it was great! Not one delicacy on the entire lazy susan! ) On the way back to the hotel I noticed that Taipei 101 was illuminated differently than before. Last night all of the office windows were lit. Tonight, the office windows were dark and each tier of the tower was outlined in changing colored lights. ) Not too much on tv - although I did catch this weather report. Looks like they were broadcasting from the western coast. Typical weather report - complete with swirly typhoon graphics and weather people wearing rain slickers and trying not to get blown over. ) Severe weather is supposed to begin in a few hours. Right now it is alternating between light rain and howling wind with horizontal sheets of rain. Hyatt seems nice and safe, which is good since I'll be cooped up here tomorrow waiting out the storm. Taken with a Nokia 3650 Cameraphone - View all cameraphone pictures Comments Typhoon Haitang is most definitely headed this way. The outer bands of the storm are hitting now, but the real weather is supposed to arrive tonight at midnight, with the worst of it around 2pm tomorrow. The mayor declared tomorrow a "stay home" day, although I sure hope the Hyatt workers don't all stay home!  
Comments Saturday, July 16, 2005 Saturday began like most other days so far - tending to the pair of blisters that I developed walking around the Forbidden City. ) Before heading to the airport, our hosts arranged a tour of the city. ) Our first stop was the Presidential Palace. With the temperature approaching 100 (with the humidity factored in), I was delighted to see Mr. Slim the airconditioner. ) ) We then headed to the Ming Tombs and Sun Yat-Sen's Mausoleum, although we didn't explore either due to the heat and the amount of walking. We then headed to the area around Confucious' Temple for a little shopping. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) From Nanjing, I flew to Hong Kong. The airport is located on a man-made island in the middle of the harbor, which is the busiest in the world supposedly. Lots 'o container ships. ) From Hong Kong I flew China Air to Taipei. During take off, the video monitors show the view from a camera mounted somewhere near the cockpit. Too cool! The service was good too - the seats were pretty comfortable with a crazy controller to modify just about every possible angle. ) And now I'm in Taipei. My room at the Hyatt is on the 8th floor and I have a great view of Taipei 101, which is right across the street. ) My room is nice - same as any nice Hyatt in any other part of the world. What was odd was that my room included two rollaway beds in addition to the king. Perhaps when typhoon Haitan (oops, I mean Super Typhoon Haitan) hits I'll be able to rent out the extra space :) ) ) Taken with a Nokia 3650 Cameraphone - View all cameraphone pictures Comments Friday, July 15, 2005 Meanwhile, back in Chicago the terrace is in full bloom!  
Comments I have no idea what day it is - without the day-of-the-week elevator maps, I'm more disoriented than usual. Today was meeting day at the Nanjing Museum. ) I'm sure many of you think that I've got it made with international business travel that enables me to get behind-the-scenes tours of famous points-of-interest - but what isn't captured in my phone pictures is the meetings, presentations, etc. So here's some evidence. ) The Nanjing Museum is very modern (the facility, not the art). More importantly, the way that they display the artifacts provides information about how the artifact was used, or reveals additional details that would otherwise be overlooked. For example, a room featuring imperial clothing displayed a loom with three weavers actually using it. The results of their work was displayed in framed embroidered swatches of fabric. ) ) The remarkable detail in the artifacts matches the architectural details seen at the Forbidden City. For any given piece you see high level patterns, but when you examine those sections more closely you realize that each is its own unique scene, and then you realize that the scene itself feautures patterns. ) And who knew that the "see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil" monkeys can be traced back to Confucious! ) ) We also got to see some of the priceless treasures that are not on display, and see how some of them are stored. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) There were a few pieces of modern Chinese art - one example is a giant white pig (the rear of which is shown here) ) Unfortunately, not a Western toilet in the whole place! And as an added twist, one restroom was unisex with two stalls, one of which had the door tied open! ) And the delicacy for the day (although I did not get a picture) is: duck tongue. Taken with a Nokia 3650 Cameraphone - View all cameraphone pictures Comments Thursday, July 14, 2005 ) I'm really going to miss the daily elevator afforimations. Today was a travel day - 2 hours flight from Beijing to Nanjing. Weather was mighty steamy and hazy - and today is the cool day supposedly. ) I'm staying at the Jingling Hotel. My room is nice, and all the low furniture makes me feel real tall :) ) ) ) Today was the typical business trip day when all you see of a city is the airport and the hotel. I'm so tired that even simple translation oddities have me snort-laughing. Here's one from the screen that is displayed when you log on to the hotel network - "Surfing Highway Enjoying the Business Travel" ) Nanjing (well, at least the corner on which my hotel is located) seems a little more orderly and less crowded than Beijing. There is still lots of bike traffic though. ) There was no planned dinner tonight, so the coworkers and I staged a revolt and went out in search of Western food. We wound up at "Henry's Home". ) Western cuisine includes the following: quesadillas, French fries, pizza, fajitas, goose liver, and fried eel. And Corona. The menu included all kinds of funny mistranslation typos like strawbelly and breed and tilamisu. ) Taken with a Nokia 3650 Cameraphone - View all cameraphone pictures Comments Wednesday, July 13, 2005 FINALLY got a decent night of sleep - 8 hours straight through! And the elevator says that it is Wednesday! ) Today was a team bonding day. We started the morning by visiting the Ming tombs at Dingling. ) We then visited the nearby tomb at Changling, where we had lunch. ) ) ) The restaurant has a 4 star toilet, which even had a handicapped stall equipped with a western toilet. ) ) After lunch, we drove to the Juyongguan section of the Great Wall. It's quite a hike, and I only went to the 1st lookout! ) After the wall, we visited the Summer Palace. ) and had dinner at the Tingliguan restuarant (the "hall for listening to the birds sing"). Dinner was very elegant - this picture is of a scene made of different types of food and displayed in the middle of the lazy susan. ) ) Taken with a Nokia 3650 Cameraphone - View all cameraphone pictures Comments Tuesday, July 12, 2005 
Comments I got about 6 hours of sleep last night - woke up to loud booms, called downstairs, they sent someone up, noises stopped. But I was wide awake so let the day begin. ) Today is supposedly cooler than yesterday, but it is still HOT and HUMID. Spent this morning touring some more of the Forbidden City and sweating a lot. It's a good thing that there are portable airconditioners in the meeting room. Soma are labeled "Mr. Slim's" and have fun logos like this one. Mr. Slim should be a permanent member of this project. ) After a long and productive afternoon, we drove to the East part of Beijing a restaurant known for its Peking Duck. ) On the way in they advertised some other specials. ) ) Most meals begin with cleaning your hands with either a hot or cold towel. This restaurant had a snazzy little machine - what looked like toilet paper rolls was fed in one side and steaming rolled towels were dispensed from the other. ) I'm getting pretty good at the chopsticks. Tonight is the first meal where I wasn't offered a knife and fork :) ) The duck is carved tableside. ) It is served with eight - I guess you'd call them condiments. A soy/plum sauce, scallions, radish strips, sugar, garlic, and celery. ) And the waitress demonstrated how to wrap it all up in a pancake. ) This was one of SEVERAL entrees. ) After a wild ride back to the hotel, I flipped channels for a while. MTV China's extreme sports program was showing "wok sledding". ) Also cleaned the blisters created from todays walking. Tomorrow is more walking than today so I'm giving up and wearing the unfashionable skirt and sneakers. ) After surviving the time difference for 3 days with only 5-6 hours of sleep per night, I'm calling in the professionals. BIG day tomorrow. ) Taken with a Nokia 3650 Cameraphone - View all cameraphone pictures Comments Monday, July 11, 2005 Meanwhile, back in Chicago Andy was up early and caught these great shots of the sunrise.  
Comments Thank goodness for the elevator mats :) ) I actually got six whole hours of sleep last night! My morning began with a trip to the gym, followed by a visit to the cash machine for some local currency. The initial two screens are entirely in Chinese. ) I was successful in getting money though. ) Today was spent in meetings at the Forbidden City. ) The morning was spent touring - did I mention it was at least 90?? Gotta stay hydrated, which is scary with the bathroom situation and all... ) ) I scored big in the afternoon though :) ) Taken with a Nokia 3650 Cameraphone - View all cameraphone pictures Comments Sunday, July 10, 2005 I had a spare minute to go through some non-camera phone pictures that I took last night at dinner and decided to post this one. The waitresses/hostesses were all dressed in traditional attire, and as you pass them they do a small dip/curtsey and say "good luck" in Chinese. The picture doesn't do them justice, but they really added to the experience. 
Comments After watching a little ping pong on tv, I headed out to our meetings at "the China branch of the company that I work for". ) Not surprisingly, it looks quite similar to every other branch of the company (Cairo, Charlotte, Beijing - they're all pretty much the same). ) But what is definitely not the same is the bathroom situation. Cairo had attendants - I could deal with that. But this was my first encounter with a "squat toilet". I was beginning to think that they were an urban myth - or perhaps only in the more local sections of town. At first I thought it was an option, and if I searched the other stalls I'd find a more Western-accessible one. But no - all stall revealed the same sad floor-level basin. ) My second encounter was at dinner. ) Dinner was at the Bai Family Courtyward Restaurant - a very upscale restaurant set in a Qing Dynasty garden. ) The elegant yellow place settings featured the five-clawed dragon - symbols reserved for the emperor. ) Our large table could have sat 15 people and the entire center was a rotating platter on which the food was served (ok - it's a lazy susan). This shot is one of the painted details. ) The place setting included chop sticks, a chop stick rest, and a golden spoon. We were told that a silver spoon would be used for royalty because if ths food was poisoned, the silver would tarnish. ) The meal included many many dishes - too many to mention. Favorites were shrimp with asparagus, mushroom chicken, and a green vegetable called something with the word Dragon in it. Dessert was a platter of fresh fruit, including leechee and a fruit with the word dragon in it (the slices had white fruit with black seeds and a purple rind). There were also pastries shaped like small birds. ) And I can't describe this meal without mentioning the Moutai alcohol - I passed, and was glad that I did because there many eyes were watering! ) Taken with a Nokia 3650 Cameraphone - View all cameraphone pictures Comments (1) Saturday, July 09, 2005 AAAA - can't...sleep! ) I went to sleep at 10 and was awake at midnight, 3am, 5am, and finally got up at 7:30. Instead of the "door hangar" type do not disturb signs, the rooms here have a switch inside which illuminates the "do not disturb" sign near the doorbell. Every hotel room should have a doorbell. ) Around 8 I decided to go down to the gym. The elevator rugs accurately reminded me that today is Sunday. Wait - what happened to Friday - and Saturday for that matter?? ) There's one shiny new treadmill (and three older ones, an old stair climber, and an elliptical - but the kind I don't like). It was deserted so I hopped on the new treadmill. I had to take a wild guess at how much I weigh in kilograms, and basically just kept pushing buttons since the controls are entirely in Chinese. ) When I finished, there was a nice little summary that I think said something like "nice leisurely walk, but not bad considering that you've had 10 hours of sleep in 3 days." ) Taken with a Nokia 3650 Cameraphone - View all cameraphone pictures Comments Our team had dinner at the hotel in the horribly overpriced buffet restaurant. Most of us had the buffet which consisted of a variety of cuisines. I stopped at what looked like a stir-fry station but turned out to be soup. After communicating "stir-fry, no soup" to three different chefs, the fourth chef understood my goofy charades and whipped me up a bowl of noodles, bean sprouts, chicken, and beef. ) Others ordered off the menu, which had everything from pizza to this gigantic club sandwich that used an entire loaf of bread. ) After dinner we walked around the hotel grounds a bit. It seems that everyone's goal is to stay up late enough so that we don't wake up at 3am! ) On the way back to my room, I noticed that the rugs in the elevator say "Saturday". My first thought was "wow - it's good to know that everyone is as disoriented as I am - they must get tired of people asking what day it is.". My second thought was that "Saturday" was the name of the elevator - and the other elevators had rugs with different days of the week. Now I'm thinking that they change them everyday - but why?? ) Taken with a Nokia 3650 Cameraphone - View all cameraphone pictures Comments I'm headed out with the most luggage that I think I've ever traveled with. I'm like one of those alligaors that grows to fit its environment. I don't think that I've overpacked - just 12 days worth of business clothing takes up a lot of room. Good thing that I bought the new 29" luggage! ) As it turned out, my bag only weighed 58.5 pounds, so I could have packed another 11.5 pounds of stuff and still not been over the international limit of 70 pounds. ) Yesterday I got a call from American Express alerting me that "as a courtesy, my seat had been changed." Huh? They moved me from a window seat in the upstairs section of a 747 to an aisle seat in the middle section downstairs. What kind of courtesy is that! Luckily, I was able to fix it when I checked in - by the way, seat 13G is nice because there is no row behind you and hence no guilt from fully reclining. ) There's something very cool about stairs in an airplane - especially when your seat is somewhere at the top of them. ) For a 14 hour flight, the food pretty much sucked. So not only am I sleep-deprived, but I'm also hungry! ) After take off, they come by with a drink service and then the first lunch. This easily takes you to two hours into the flight. The movie options were Hitch, Dr Doolittle 2, the boxing movie with Hillary Swank (which I wanted to watch but the signal was all garbled), and that movie with Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Falon from Saturday Night Live where he's a Red Sox Fan. Most of the time I watched the flight path map.  Isn't that a WILD point of view? I tried to sleep but only slept about 4 hours total. They served some "hot sandwich" somewhere over Siberia (like a croissantwich or something - I passed) and had a fruit, chips, and Toblerone buffet for grazing. About 2 hours before we landed they came through with another lunch - this time a choice of a pulled pork sandwich or a fruit plate. Fruit plate please. The descent into Beijing was somewhat choppy - and the weeather was hazy and in the high 80's when we landed. Arrival wasn't bad at all - lots of walking, then you clear customs, agriculture, and immigration. There were lots of forms to turn in, some of which were only in Chinese so the flight attendants helped us - "#8 asks if you are bringing any equipment for spying". I wasn't feeling too well because of the lack of sleep, food, and bumpy flight - I was sure that someone was going to take my temperature and deny me entry for fear of SARS - but no one asked any questions whatsoever. ) Just after immigration there's a pretty mural of the Great Wall. Hopefully I'll get to see the real thing while I'm here. ) Te baggage area was decorated with faux turf and lots of these little creatures (some vaguely resembling cats or monkeys). ) We didn't have to wait long for our luggage. Here's the luggage tag - PEK is the airport code for Beijing because Beijing used to be called Peking. ) We found our transportation handler person easily and he took us to the minivan. The drive to the hotel seemed long - I'm not sure if it's because I'm tired and cranky or because the driver was changing lanes, breaking, and speeding up a lot. Let's just say that I was REALLY happy to arrive at the hotel. ) When we walked into the lobby of the Shangri-La Hotel, we were each greeted by a private hostess who took us to our rooms where the registration formalities were handled. The room is very nice - quality bed linens, US plug outlets, wireless internet, and a bathroom that reminds me of Paris (with the half shower door that has no hope of containing water during a shower. The view from the room is non descript, except for the space needle-ish Central Radio and Tv Tower. ) ) When I walked into the room, all I wanted to do was sleep, but then I was afraid that any bit of sleep would keep me from sleeping tonight so I checked email, uploaded some pictures, and typed this blog entry. I think we're meeting as a group to have some dinner and maybe walk around. I sure hope I find something aside from the special advertised in the room menu! ) Taken with a Nokia 3650 Cameraphone - View all cameraphone pictures Comments (1) Thursday, July 07, 2005 Let the business trip commence! Tomorrow morning I head off on a 12 day business trip to China to kick off a new project that will occupy my time for the next few years.  From Chicago, I fly directly to Beijing (yep - a whopping 14 hour flight). I'm in Beijing until Thursday when I fly to Nanjing, the former capital of China. Then on Saturday I fly to Taipei in Taiwan. I hope to blog the highlights, including pictures, so check back often if you're interested in tagging along :) Comments 
Comments Wednesday, July 06, 2005 Our psuedo-garden is doing remarkably well - growing plenty of macro-photography opportunities :) ) ) Taken with a Nokia 3650 Cameraphone - View all cameraphone pictures Comments Sunday, July 03, 2005 In preparation for my upcoming work-trip to China, we broke down and bought a new lens (a combo zoom and close focus) for the D70. These close-up test images were shot in low light without a tripod. Although not a "true macro lens" (as the salesman kept reiterating) it looks like it will work just fine :)  
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