This afternoon, my most awesome boss, Scott (would include a link here if there was a blog to link to, AHEM), sent me out with his Nikon D80 to play around with.

First of all, to get the super geeky stuff out of the way, I have a bit of camera envy now. The body is lighter than the D70, and the bigger LCD screen on the back is a nice improvement. There are a few functionality changes that would take a bit of getting used to, but those 2 refinements alone are enough for me to consider upgrading my camera body. Also, the RAW files take up way less space (10 MB as opposed to 30) and the D80 uses SanDisk cards now (I’m still stuck using the old CompactFlash cards which cost about twice as much).

Anyway, Dumbo is such a cool place to photograph destruction. The buildings all have about 10 layers of brick and mortar showing. The streets are half pavement, half cobblestone and old trolley tracks. There is an obscene amount of graffiti, old worn painted signs on buildings, and half peeled posters. Pretty cool.

But what’s the first thing I post? A set of pipes that look like boobs complete with piercings connecting chains to a belly ring. Isn’t that what you see here? No? Maybe it’s just because I’m reading a book about a stripper. Don’t mind me.

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