Citifield 8, originally uploaded by DVdaniels. Perfect weather and overall perfect day to take in a Met game. This was my first trip to Citifield and I spent at least half of the time walking, taking pictures and video. One thing I learned quick was if you needed someone to take a picture of you and everyone in your group, look around for the ushers wearing green shirts. They have a system in place where they will take your picture, give...

Egyptian Art Wing 2, originally uploaded by DVdaniels. I happened to stop by the MET this weekend. My favorite wing is The American Wing but since it is currently being renovated, more than half the collection is not available to be seen to the public. Here I shot a picture while walking thru the Sackler Wing which displays “The Temple of Dendur“. A gift from Eygpt to the U.S., The temple has been here since 1978 and I have...

What a beautiful day! I took my new camera to Central Park. This is the first HD video I put together using my Sanyo Xacti 9.1 Megapixel Digital Movie Camera. I promise the video’s will get better with practice. The camera is really small! The Xacti seemed to give me just over an hour of recording time today while the manual says it will last 75 minutes so that’s just about right. It didn’t nearly as long as I would like...

I know there are a lot of choices out there when it comes to blogging software but today I’m testing out Windows Live Writer for this blog as opposed to the online WordPress dashboard. “Download here” The first thing I noticed was the Windows Live Writer looks and feels like a traditional Microsoft Office program and is very similar to Microsoft Word. Even though you “could” use Word for blogging, Live Writer goes a step...

Todays kids will never pick up a newspaper? Being from Long Island I have always picked up Newsday but my favorite paper is the NYPost for it’s great pictures and headlines. As a Met fan, I enjoyed the posting from today. As a kid I used to deliver newspapers after school. Now newspapers are delivered before 5am so it’s not a kids job anymore. Today I just open up my laptop whenever I want, go to my Google Reader and start...