Birding in the Bay Area

I know a 135mm lens isn't enough for serious birdwatchers, but in the San Francisco Bay Area there are plenty of places to get up close and personal. Case in point.

A Matter of Millimeters

My birthday gift this year is possibly the finest piece of engineering that I've owned -- a 28-135mm image-stabilized, ultrasonic motor (IS, USM) Canon zoom lens. Took it for a spin on my commute to work and around the Berkeley marina. Even in Canada after the metric system came in, I never thought in metric: 75 is a hot day, not 25; I still have no idea how many centimeters tall I am, somewhere between 100 and 200 I'd guess. But for cameras at least I'm starting to think in millimeters!

First Post - the Origin of BaySquared

I had a dream last night where several interesting things happened, and in the dream I thought, "I'll just write about them on my blog". Whoops, no blog. Time to take care of that.

I love coming up with names for things, but not names that define me -- I'll happily enter a naming contest that someone else has set up, but I don't like to distill my essence into a license plate or online nickname.

BaySquared represents the Then and Now of my life -- growing up in Newfoundland, Canada surrounded by Conception Bay, Trinity Bay, St. Mary's Bay, Bonavista Bay, etc., and now living in northern California where I commute to work over San Francisco Bay (I actually cross the bay 3 times on the way to work), and on vacation head to Monterey Bay, Bodega Bay, and Tomales Bay.