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My birthday isn’t until June 21st, but that didn’t stop my wonderful wife from deciding she was buying me a new camera on May 1st. I’m attending the Indy 500 later this month (to work) and she wanted me to have a good camera and give me enough time to learn how to use it. I’m delighted to say that I finally own an SLR! We got a Nikon D5000. Seems like an awesome camera from first-impressions and the picture quality compared to my old camera is amazing. I’m glad I used manual settings on my ‘point and shoot’ Fujifilm s7000 because it’s made the transition a piece of cake.

Anyway, the first night I had the camera obviously I didn’t want to go out and what better subject than pets? A full gallery is here, but below you can see a selection of the photos I took while learning this fantastic camera – and yes, there were a LOT of total rejects on the memory card!

Cropped and toned. Close-up photo of our cat, Chewbacca Junior Esquire.

Toned. Another close-up of Chewie.

Cropped and toned. This photo is of our other cat, Alaska.

You can view the rest of the photos, all are unedited and most are high quality shots, here in the gallery.