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Yesterday, I headed to MacRitchie Reservoir Park to visit the HSBC TreeTop Walk. Although it had been raining heavily the previous few days, yesterday was an exception, with nice sunny weather, but not too hot, and it got a little cloudy (and hence cooling) in the later part. Still, it was quite tiring doing all the walking (I need to exercise more).

I enjoyed shooting with my D90 and 18-200mm lens, and in fact, I really appreciated the range of the lens, allowing me to keep that lens on the whole time. You can see the complete album here. Or you can view selected photos on my Flickr.

I’ve uploaded some photos from my spankin’ new Nikon D90.

My favourite shot:

Yes, I now own my first DSLR, a Nikon D90 with Nikon 18-200mm and Tokina 11-16mm lenses.

I did my first walk-about shoot yesterday, to practise shooting with the D90, as well as the 11-16 lens. Yes, ultra-wide angle lenses are not easy to use effectively. I definitely learnt a lot after reviewing the photos I took.

There’s still so much more to learn, and I hope I’ll have more photos to share soon.

Some months back, I was on the lookout for a cheap NAS (network attached storage). The idea was that it would be cheaper than buying a second system, and if I used a NAS instead of just adding a hard disk to my PC, I should be able to switch off my PC sometimes, and not worry about shared files being inaccessible. Plus, I just wanted to play with a new gadget.

I had two choices at that time: Planex NAS-01G or Kuro-Box (a.k.a. Kurobox, KuroBox, Kuro Box…). The Kuro-Box was about SGD40 more expensive, but it was essentially a Linux box, and highly “hackable”. The Planex NAS-01G is also a Linux box, but it is meant to work out-of-the-box, and has limited “hack-ability”.
 

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