There’s also a Flickr group where you can see the entire group’s pictures.

We then went west, across the railroad tracks, to the Museum of Science & Discovery.

We then turned south to River Walk, where we continued back to the Riverfront plaza.

At this point, we stopped for some group photos and a few people left. We decided to cut the route short, since it was hot and most of us were tired. Instead of continuing to Las Olas Blvd, we went to Briny Pub for lunch & drinks.

It turned out to be a good decision, since it started raining while we were having lunch. By this time we were down to only 8 people, including Paulo, his wife and his son.

We decided to wait until it stopped raining, but it didn’t show any signs of stopping.

Finally, Paulo had to leave, so the 5 of us who remained went indoors since we were getting wet on the covered patio. While we were waiting, we took some pictures of the fish tank.

Finally, we made a run for it, even though it was still raining pretty hard. In all, we had a great time and I learned a lot from some of the professionals about focus, exposure, color balance, and photo processing.

There were more Canons than Nikons, and most of the Nikon owners had a D300 or other high end models.

I posted a full gallery of my photowalk pictures at Flickr.

We have a marriage ‘protection’ amendment on the ballot here in November. This decision in California is a dream come true for the amendment’s supporters. It will energize their base with the fear of it happening here and help them get out the vote. This means a much bigger Republican turnout.

Although Obama is already expected to lose Florida, this will almost certainly guarantee it and by a much bigger margin.

California could have done us (and the entire country) a big favor if they had waited until after the election to make this decision.

Aperture 2.1 had no problem handling that many photos in a single project. It took about 5 minutes to import from the memory card.