Ellen Ning Zhao’s musing between sense and sensibility
Posted in life on Dec 31st, 2006
I had the first Christmas with Dirk at his home in the Tübingen area. Days before Christmas Dirk had to submit a paper before the deadline, so he was writing with computer all the time. His father Günter took me out to the downtown of Tübingen in the afternoon of Dec. 22, 2006. I shot [...]
Posted in photography on Dec 30th, 2006
Delivers Superb Images If You dont Mind Babysitting the Exposure Compensation All the Time
I’ve owned a Nikon D80 for over two months and made 1200+ shots with the D80 so far. My experience with the image performance of the D80 reveals that: Pros of this camera (most important in my opinions):
1. Nearly instant start up.
2. [...]
Posted in life on Dec 24th, 2006
Hi my friends who happen to visit the blog!
Yesterday I beautified a Christmas tree (a real one, not plastic) for the first time. I was so delighted by the atomasphere here and I wish you can feel it too!
Merry Christmas and all the best in 2007!
Yours,
Ellen
Posted in photography on Dec 24th, 2006
Shortly before I went to South Italy I got a Nikon D80. In Italy I tried it out with different settings and I guess after 1000+ shots, I know the typical graphical behaviour of Nikon D80 under various settings.
The “automatic” setting on the main setting wheel would usually keep the aperture at f 5.6 [...]
Posted in travel on Dec 24th, 2006
Sorrento Sunshine 1
Sorrento Sunshine 2
Sorrento Sunshine 3
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Amalfi
At the fourth day of the ISPA conference, the host organized an excursion to Amalfi. It was sunny like the past days and our bus ride was totally along the coast from Sorrento to Amalfi. There was wonderful view all the way to Amalfi, I sat at the end [...]
Posted in travel on Dec 23rd, 2006
Sorrento Sunshine 1
Sorrento Sunshine 2
After the presentation we went to the organized lunch. It was again an X-courses meal. To Dirk, Willi and me it was hardly really enjoyable. We spent more time on waiting to be served rather than eating. There were simply many guests that is one thing, the other thing was, I [...]
Posted in travel on Dec 22nd, 2006
This blog continues the Sorrento Sunshine written yesterday.
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Sorrento
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The Ristorante Crawford was unfortunately closed when I got there, all cooks and waiters were at home. However seeing there’s no other guest to serve, the owner, who is a nice mid-age lady and cannot speak English at all, asked her son to come out to serve me. [...]
Posted in travel on Dec 21st, 2006
Last week Dirk had his ISPA conference in Sorrento. Since I didn’t have any seminar or lecture at school last week, we flied to Italy together and stayed there from Dec. 2nd to Dec. 8th.
The Journey to Sorrento
The weather was so nice. We departed from the international airport Düsseldorf and flied with LTU. The [...]
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Ellen Ning Zhao’s musing between sense and sensibility
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