Last week, I went to Vegas for the the PMA photography convention/trade show. I had a great time and learned a lot (mostly regarding CS4 and Camera Raw.) However, I’m still knee deep in editing all these pictures… It’s going to take a while…

Here’s one of them, though.

My new camera finally came in last week so this weekend I had to try it out and I was just blown away at the clarity the camera was able to produce.

Below is one of my favorite images from the shoot. I posted up an album of saturday’s shoot on my flickr.

My cat, Sushi, in ambush mode.

I just got back from Crystal Beach a few hours ago. Hurricane Ike destroyed everything east of Rollover Pass and a good majority of Crystal Beach. Cabins were either washed away completely or took severe damage. My family was luckier than most. My dads cabin and my aunts cabin, for the most part, only lost their downstairs areas.

I uploaded the rest of my photos I took down there to my hurricane Ike flickr gallery so check them out there.

As screwed up as things are down there, rebuilding seems to be happening very quickly. If you notice from the my pictures, the power lines are already rebuilt. The streetlights are even on at night. From what I heard, the peninsula will have running water again in about 3 weeks.

I’ve decided to go to hurricane-ravaged Crystal Beach for the weekend to see if I can help out and take some pictures. I’ll have to put my webcomic process on hold for a a couple of days.