Back in town

I just got back from some travel, mostly to the big island of Hawaii.  I took lots of underwater pictures and I'll try to get some of those up shortly.  I bought a (relatively) high end point and shoot - the Canon S100 - for the occasion and I really, really like it.  Shoots in RAW mode, nice small format, image quality's definitely a step up from any point and shoot I've used before although obviously not up to DSLR standards.  Expensive for a point and shoot but cheap compared to a DSLR.  It's a good compromise if you need to travel light, or just want to always carry a camera with you that has fewer compromises than the one in your cell phone.  The Underwater Case works well - this is the third Canon underwater case I've had over the years and the only problem I've ever had was when some bored rich teens stole one of them (sigh).

The video's really nice, too - I'll put together some of the underwater video as well. 

So basically the plan is to wrap all that up and then think about doing some outdoor shoots once we get some rain and clear out all this junk in the air.  We've been having a mini drought but the rain people say the jet stream mumble mumble blah blah rain next week maybe.