external monologue

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once again, i'm without an image from yesterday, although the camera is finally all charged up and ready to go. this photo is the image that was used for the pulse cover story. i think it may be the first image from an actual film camera that i've used here on the photo diary. you'll notice that its a somewhat wider format and, at least to my eye, it seems to be of much higher quality. i've been shooting digital so much that i sometimes forget how much faster and higher quality all my nikon lenses are than the plasticky little lens on my little olympus digicam. (for my fellow photonuts, this was shot with my N80 with my brand spankin' new 24mm wide-angle lens.) okay, enough photo-blathering.

umm... what else. mesh, brent and i had a stirring discussion about current day journalism last night. i don't think i had realized exactly why i found the local paper so frustrating, but as it turns out, chattanooga is hindered by no longer being a two paper town. the monopoly of the one paper makes for "responsible, yet uninteresting" reading, as mesh put it. all of which makes me even more excited about the opportunities we have at pulse to be a foil for other local publications.