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I mostly carry the D90 + 80-200 2.8 + 50 1.4... but I use all of the lenses at one point or another. It's a great setup! The D90 paired with the 50mm lens basically vacuums any available light in the dim theater and makes a beautiful image, while the other lenses supplement the core set pretty well, allowing anything from wide to pretty tight.

I don't use the flashes much, but might set up a couple on remote during some of the band's songs later tonight... we'll see!

This weekend I'll be joining the colorful cast of characters from the Office of Youth Ministry down in Springfield, MO for the 2009 Steubenville St. Louis Mid-America Youth Conference. My role? Take tons of pictures, video clips, audio interviews etc., and put them on the oym's LIVE site: live.stlyouth.org.

Next weekend? Same thing. LOLSaints podcasts might have to be put on hold for a few days ;-)

Well, in the wee hours of the morning, I decided to sit down and test out the recording abilities of my iPhone 3G, using the built-in voice memo program and my trusty ol' voice (which is, thankfully, working okay).

What resulted is the first-ever brand-spanking-new super-cool and fantabulous LOLSaints Podcast (embedded in today's saintly posting)! The podcast is integrated right into the normal LOLSaints postings, so you can either play 'em just below the saint of the day (if you're one of those types who can't stand to click through the post and read a story!), or you can subscribe to the LOLSaints Podcast (click the link for the feed) via iTunes or whatever software you choose!

(Click it... LOLSaints dares you!)

Earlier this evening, my family and I attended the fireworks display at Fair St. Louis (downtown St. Louis), and viewed them from the third floor balcony at KMOX (which just so happens to be the first building after the Arch grounds, affording a beautiful view!).

Here's an embed of the video from YouTube:

The video was shot in HD on my trusty ol' Nikon D90, and turned out pretty well; I didn't do any kind of manual exposure, and the fireworks were pretty much properly exposed (which surprised me). It was shot at the wide end of my favorite walkaround lens, the 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5.