Thomas Silkjær | Graphic design & photography

It was my wifes birthday yesterday, so I bought her some red roses. And beautiful red roses is of course an ideal object for macro photography, so I mounted my Sigma 30mm F1.4 and my Canon EF 12 II extension tube, and shot a few macros.

Later h0bbel noticed me of Canons photo contest, The Assignment, where you are allowed to upload one photo to only one of the four categories: portrait, landscape, sport and macro.

I don't think I will stand a chance, but I think I might try to catch a nice macro photo for the contest anyways.

With a baby on its way, we have decided to buy a camcorder. I have spent many hours looking around for the right one, and I think I have decided to go for a Canon Vixia HF10.

I really like the idea of removable storage instead of a big HDD - the HF10 has an internal memory of 16GB and is extensible using SDHC cards. It shoots 1080p and has a lot of fantastic features, a great lens, great autofocus etc. I can recommend reading the great review at camcorderinfo.com which actually covers every little detail.

A few pictures of the beauty:

If you have experience with this or other HD camcorders, then please share them. But otherwise I am pretty certain that this is a good choice!

And a last thing - if I end up buying this cam, I will of course upload more photos and test shootings!