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As I’m sure by now, most of you have read my What’s in my bag post, over at my personal blog. I am pretty happy at the amount of gear I drag along on a photowalk. Rarely do I feel like I forgot something, and most of the time I feel like I brought along just enough.

However, the problem has been the “bag” itself. I have a simple LowePro waist pack. Most of the time I put the shoulder strap on it, and sling it over my shoulder. This works fine because the bag isn’t too large, so there’s not a lot of heavy gear. However, I don’t have enough space for each lens I like to bring along. This causes me to strap one of my Sigma lens cases onto the outside. No biggy? Wrong. I can’t secure it tight, so it flops around like a broken toy.

Then, today, B&H sent me an email, highlighting this new LowePro backpack they’re carrying. I remembered talking with Leigh about his LowePro backpack, on the Olvera Street Photowalk, and thought I’d check it out.

So, I think I’ve added a nice new bag to my Christmas wish list:

I’ll review it, if and when I get this as a gift for Christmas.

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I forgot to mention that Darren Rowse, of ProBlogger.net and The Digital Photography School, invited me to write a guest post at DPS last week. So I did. Go check it out.

And, if you hadn’t heard of DPS, then you need to wake up! It’s only one of the top photography blogs.

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I don’t have a lot of time to write a well written post. So, I’ll just throw out the net and see what I catch.

Zooomr Mark III launched last night. But then it crashed 15 minutes later. Most of my photos here are hosted there, so you won’t see anything until it recovers. I don’t know how long that will take.

So, go out and read the articles I added below, and make sure to comment. Then, if you have any contacts at a large tech company, you know, Sun, IBM, Google, Dell, etc., contact them and convince them to reach out a helping hand.

Basically Zooomr’s server died. No hope to revive it. Just dead. So they need a new server. This costs money. Many of the ZooomrNation have been donating cash, via PayPal. You can too, just hit Zooomr and scroll to the bottom, you’ll see the PayPal button.

Also see these blogs/sites:

• Scoble: An Evangelism Opportunity…
• ComeAcross: Zooomr needs your help
• Digg
• Thomas Hawk: Thanks Scoble
• ZooomrHits: Zooomr Mark 3 Launches, Then Goes Down

And last but not least…

• Zooomr Blog: Zooomr, The Little Photo Sharing Site That Could

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