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Long Beach Aquarium image gallery up

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewcharlton/sets/72157594196557149/

I finally got a little tired of my Gallery2 install, it was just a little too slow on my server and I thought I’d start moving stuff over to Flickr. I like it so far and the uploads are quick and easy and viewing speeds are great. Maybe it will give me some more motivation to shoot and post pictures.

But on the pictures themselves, I took them with my Nikon D70 with an 18-70mm. I’d say 90% of the indoor aquarium shots were without flash so I had my ISO bumped to 800 or 1600 most of the time. The shots through the tanks were pretty tough and I was having to brace myself against the tank and pretty much hold the edge of my lens agaist it to minimize camera shake (oh how I pine for a VR lens). Let me know what you think.

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Wow it has already been 3 weeks since my last post

Time flies when you are working. I’ve already been working full-time for over a month and my blog has been pushed to the back burner for no good reason. Compared to when I was in school full-time and working part-time I should have more time now to post, I just need to stay motivated. I should have a gallery up of pictures from a trip to the Long Beach aquarium tomorrow. If I don’t get it up yell at me.

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I’m now more offically a college graduate

I “graduated” about 3 weeks ago, but just because you walk doesn’t mean you are going to make it past your final grad check. Got an e-mail today saying that I had officially graduated and that my degree was now real. Cool, just gotta wait a couple months to get my actual diploma.

CSULB actually had a pretty good on-line tool that would check your transcript against your degree requirements and tell you what you needed. One of my classes got reduced by a unit so it said I was missing a unit, but it checked out okay anyway.

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So now what?

At this point in life the question of plans for the immediate future is very common. I’m a pretty ambitious guy and I hold myself to a pretty high standard. I was an intern at Northrop Grumman for almost a year and a half and always knew that when the time for me to graduate came I would probably receive an offer from them, but I also planned on looking at other positions outside of NG. Well April 2006 rolled around and I wasn’t offered a position so I went ahead with my plans and found other potential positions.

By the second week of May I had several competitive offers I was considering but I weighed what I thought was important and ultimately went with my gut feeling and accepted one of my offers. That position is with DreamBox Creations in Diamond Bar. They do web sites and web applications. It is pretty kick back (ping pong table in the break room kind of deal) and very small (I’ll make number 11 or 12), both of which I like after coming off my stint with NG.

So what am I doing after college? Working full-time and hopefully having fun at the same time.