Here are the search strings that brought people to my website in the month of October in 2011.

My friend Trena volunteered to model for me so I could practice portrait photography. We headed up to the University of Kansas campus about 6pm to catch the evening light. I'm pretty happy about how things turned out.

The rest of the album is here:
http://www.pespinosa.org/imagery/main/People/Trena

Lunch at El Mezcal.

Recently I upgraded to a D700 and am really liking this camera. Here are a few pictures I've taken with it.

Updated Books Read in 2011

• 02/06/11 Skin Deep by Gary Braver
• 02/10/11 Brain Warp: A Medical Thriller by Gil Snider
• 02/18/11 Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist by Paul Linde
• 02/21/11 The End of America by Naomi Wolf
• 04/20/11 Rough Country by John Sandford
• 05/11/11 Storm Prey by John Sandford
• 05/21/11 Buried Prey by John Sandford
• 05/26/11 The Definitive H.P. Lovecraft: 67 Tales of Horror by H.P. Lovecraft
• 06/06/11 Beating Back the Devil by Maryn McKenna, Maryn

On January 28, 2010 I bought a Kindle 2.

The best book has been "The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History" by John Barry. This is the story of the 1918 Influenza pandemic. Current theory is that it started in Haskell County, Kansas, spread to Ft. Riley and then to the world.

The worst book of the bunch and in contention for the worst book I ever read is "Microbe" by Bill Clem. Everything from the writing to the flat characters, the plot and the plot resolution was horrible.

Here are the books I've read so far.

A few were on another ereader only because the titles weren't available on the Kindle.

Books Read in 2010

• 01/29/10 Torch of Freedom by David Weber
• 01/29/10 Contagious by Scott Sigler
• 02/05/10 The Rise of the Fourth Reich by Jim Marrs
• 02/08/10 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• 02/09/10 Infected by Scott Sigler
• 03/07/10 Get Me Out of Here by Rachel Reiland
• 03/07/10 Primitive by Mark Nykanen
• 03/07/10 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• 03/07/10 Sometimes I Act Crazy: Living... by Jerold J. Kreisman M.D., Hal Straus
• 04/13/10 Serial Uncut (Extended Edition) by Blake Crouch, Jack Kilborn, J.A. Konrath
• 04/30/10 Superbug by Maryn McKenna
• 05/10/10 Podkayne of Mars by Robert Heinlein
• 05/10/10 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• 07/14/10 Mission of Honor by David Weber
• 07/18/10 Invisible Prey by John Sandford
• 07/29/10 Phantom Prey by John Sandford
• 08/02/10 Wicked Prey by John Sandford
• 08/03/10 Heat Lightning by John Sandford
• 08/05/10 Damaged by Cathy Glass
• 08/05/10 Deranged by Harold Schechter
• 08/05/10 Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood by Julie Gregory
• 08/11/10 The Deadliest Strain by Jan Coffey
• 08/12/10 The Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy
• 08/22/10 China Syndrome by Karl Taro Greenfeld
• 08/26/10 Isolation Ward by Joshua Spanogle
• 08/26/10 Killer Germs by Barry E. Zimmerman
• 09/06/10 Immortality by Kevin Bohacz
• 09/12/10 Bestial by Harold Schechter
• 09/12/10 The Cobra Event by Richard Preston
• 09/29/10 The Ezekiel Code by Gary Val Tenuta
• 10/17/10 Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• 10/17/10 Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
• 10/28/10 Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
• 10/28/10 Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• 11/07/10 Harrowing the Dragon by Patricia McKillip
• 11/08/10 The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest... by John Barry
• 11/16/10 The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
• 12/01/10 Year Zero by Jeff Long
• 12/06/10 Witch Hunt by Devin O'Branagan
• 12/07/10 Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle
• 12/12/10 The Satan Bug by Alistair MacLean
• 12/15/10 Hackers by Steven Levy
• 12/15/10 In Conquest Born by C.S. Friedman
• 12/15/10 Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter
• 12/15/10 Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
• 12/15/10 The Notebooks of Lazarus Long by Robert A. Heinlein

Books Read in 2011

• 01/06/11 Agatha H and the Airship City by Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio
• 01/15/11 Pandemic by Daniel Kalla
• 01/20/11 Microbe by Bill Clem
• 01/20/11 Rage Therapy by Daniel Kalla
• 01/25/11 Resistance by Daniel Kalla
• 01/29/11 Living Terrors: What... by John Schwartz, Michael T. Phd Osterholm
• 01/31/11 Blind Impulse by Allen E. Wiesen
• 02/06/11 Skin Deep by Gary Braver
• 02/10/11 Brain Warp: A Medical Thriller by Gil Snider
• 02/18/11 Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist by Paul Linde
• 02/21/11 The End of America by Naomi Wolf
• 04/20/11 Rough Country by John Sandford
• 05/11/11 Storm Prey by John Sandford
• 05/21/11 Buried Prey by John Sandford
• 05/26/11 The Definitive H.P. Lovecraft: 67 Tales of Horror by H.P. Lovecraft
• 06/06/11 Beating Back the Devil by Maryn McKenna, Maryn

Photo of the moon. Please view full size.

Bought a new lens today, a Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 VRII. I traded in my 18-200mm lens and my D300s camera. This is in preparation for me purchasing a D700. It's a pretty amazing lens. I'm liking the results so far.

These pictures were taken with my D200.