I am very excited! I have decided to go for being a professional photographer! I will be launching a new website within the next month!

Also, I have upgraded my camera to a Pentax K20D! It has a 14.6 megapixel rating, great color, and a lot of great features! I am very excited to begin doing jobs with it! Here is a picture of it with its battery grip!

And here are a couple of pictures I have taken with it so far! I am really enjoying playing with this new camera. The colors are amazing, and the resolution is incredible. I hope you like them!

I got a new lens today in preparation for a photo shoot I have coming up on Monday, weather permitting. It is a Pentax SMCP-FA 50mm f/1.4 Lens.

I was very excited to get this new lens and play with it, so I called a few friends who have just gotten a new puppy. They were happy to let me snap some shots! What I am loving about this lens is it super wide aperture. Compared to my other lens, the opening is enormous! It is allowing me to take better shots inside even without flash. Also, because it lets in so much light, its depth of field is razor sharp, making what is in focus crystal clear, and offering a nice soft blur effect to what is not in focus. Here are a couple shots I got with my new lens!

I am quite excited! I received my new Pentax AF 360 FGZ Flash on Thursday! I have used add on flash units in the past, but this is the first time I have had one with so many functions and flexibility. This new flash communicates with my camera, zooms in and out as I zoom my lens in and out, and helps my camera with its settings when I choose to bounce the flash off the ceiling, etc. I am having a lot of fun playing with it and seeing what new options it brings me. It is much more powerful than other flashes I have used in the past, so it will hopefully give me broader range.  I have also just received the Lumiquest Promax system, which allows me to attach various reflectors to my flash unit, such as white, gold, and silver reflectors, softening the power of the flash and offering slight colors to the flash light.