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They're gearing up for big celebrations this year in honor of his 300th birthday.

After shooting this photo I took a while to play around and confirmed what I had been suspecting -- at least with the 50mm, my D7000 is back-focusing in a big way. It seems to need AF Fine Tune of like -20 to really be sharp. I'm pretty sure it affects other lenses too, and that probably means I should send it to Nikon (although that's inconvenient since I bought the camera in the US).

They've been doing construction in the grassy area outside our office -- tearing up a square of grass, pouring new dirt, compacting the dirt. We thought maybe it would be a new parking lot, but we came back from the US to discover prefab offices being plopped down. So much for the view. To add insult to injury, the new offices have air conditioning!

Especially if what ails you is jet lag. (I just noticed that in the last week I had about half of my photos devoted to either coffee or beer. I guess you see where my priorities are.)