Once upon a time, I was a professional photographer. I've been a computer guy so long now that I even forget that fact sometimes. Recently, I discovered a bunch of my old slides from the early '90s, and some of them reminded me how much I enjoyed photography. Here's one of them:

I loved this bird's eyes, and on my calibrated Mac screen the color is nearly exact. Firefox 2 won't display the colors properly, perhaps because of the color space I used. Firefox 3 will do so, however, if you enable color management.

This was shot on Ektachrome 100, 35mm film, using a Canon T90 and a ~70-210 f2.8 Canon L series lens, if memory serves. I rephotographed the slide with my Pentax *ist DL camera and the kit lens, if you can believe that. I held the slide up in front of a big white screen (Finder maximized on an empty folder) and shot it hand held four or five times. This one turned out OK. When I get my K20D I'm going to make a slide duplicator that will improve on this quality considerably; through a loupe you can count the feathers on this fellow, but here it's not nearly as sharp.

I don't plan on turning this into a photo blog, but I plan on shooting a lot more photos, so expect to see 'em.