What'd you get for your holiday?!

DanielB

lets make a thread of all hte equipment we recieved for the holidays.

i'll kick it off.


Monopod + head

Tripod + head

i'm sooo happy:D and i'll be ordering my 70-200 f4L in a week or two.:clap

soo yeah, lets hear your responses!:thumb

Red Bull

• Canon 70-200 f/4L
• iTrip for my iPod video
• $15 iTunes prepaid card
• $20 iTunes gift certificate
• 1 Year subscription to PC Photo magazine
• $15 Best Buy card
• 2 old Rollercoaster ACE (American Coaster Enthusiast) magazines
• Some money

Here's a photo of everything

ScottMcLeod

Canon 85 f/1.8 USM
"Understanding Exposure" - Book
"Studio Lighting Techniques" - Book
French photo magazines x2
"Racer-X" die-cast 1/18th model from "Speed Racer"
McLeod Tartan scarf
and... uhh... liqueur chocolates, and a bottle of Ricard (pastis).

RichardBrackin

I got most of my stuff early:

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Dan Margulis Lab Book
Canon 135mm f/2.0 L
Lowepro AW75a camera bag and 2 Lens Case 4 bags.
2 sick kids and not much sleep

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... and ...
The Mrs. got to pay parts and labor for a new mirror for the minivan (after she broke it clean off the minivan after hitting a mailbox).
Bet she won't do THAT again.

DavidTO

I got a black belt. It's nice. Keeps my pants up.

gus

........................aftershave.

JCDoss

I was granted permission to live another year.

David_S85

Underwear - and I'm not about to put a pic of that up here.

Had a small Christmas this year. We're saving the cash for May's trip to Bryon and Zeiss.

gus

& for my birthday i will get some aftershave

Thusie

Humungus wrote:

& for my birthday i will get some aftershave

And how many bottles of the stuff have you collected so far?? Don could open a store with his.

GraphyFotoz

Well......
I got Zip....Nada in the way of Photographic stuff.:cry
Matter of fact I didn't get a lot of anything!

Guess I'm the only one in My/Her Family that takes my photography seriously?

marlof

a shirt, aftershave, chocolate, deodorant (!), shower gel, a towel. I guess there's something wrong with my personal hygene.... j/k it was all in accordance with my taste, so I am darned happy. And with us, it's more about spending quality time together than about expensive gifts. It was a great xmas!

I did get a digital zuiko 50mm f2 macro as a gift from someone who really knew what I'd like in the photography field: me!

ginger_55

Most bestest, I got a scarf my DC, soon to be Columbia SC, daughter knitted for me. Her hand had long been in a cast, it was a painful thing for her to do, but good therapy. We both benefitted, but it was me she knitted it for. And it is gorgeous, matches my jeans and just right for birding on cold mornings.

And nextest, but not lesser than, my oldest daughter knitted me a prayer shawl. Gorgeous! While one knits this thing, one prays for the person who is being knitted for. So lots of good prayers are coming my way now and next year (I don't know if there is a termination point on how long the prayers work , I doubt it).

And, well, this is terrible, but my ex husband is going thru a divorce, so it really made my Christmas better (maybe his, too). All kids except one were here, we all had a holly jolly, prayerful, crying, fighting, back to jolly, but most of all Relaxed christmas, first time in years.

No photo stuff. That is usually from uncle sam in a month or so, will have to see on that. Gift certificates in small amounts, ..............well, what I remember are the prayer shawl and scarf, too. The scarf is also gorgeous.

The Chrildren's mass was a gift, a real gift. I have photos, imagine my frustration, have to wait til I get home to upload and no one will care to see Christmas photos. But suffice it to say that the children's Christmas mass had it all, very moving, tears of joy and happiness, laughter, many little children, the creche, the adoration, the christmas story, the children's choir, the children, a translator for the deaf..................and at the endish, Santa, the reaist looking Santa ever, so who knows, brought a cake up the aisle, one lit candle, laid the cake at the foot of the altar in front of the manger and knelt while the children sang. Not many dry eyes there, either.

One heck of a production and very moving.

I had a good christmas! (Oh, and yesterday morning, Santa, in his hat, was sitting at this PC, in a torn t-shirt, smoking a cigarette. Sometimes a dangling cigarette. Now that is a photo)

I had it all this Christmas! The good, best one in many years!

ginger

Thusie

Well for me it was pretty much the usual, which is fine. SD always gets me Clinique skin care stuff, which I do use, he still sees me as some young Chick, bless his heart. Mom always gets me clothes, her attempt to keep me from running around is rags:D

Don and I get what we want for ourselves and each other thoughout the year. Howevr he did tell me if I keep improving with the 300D a 20D might be around for my birthday this summerclap

That we (Mom, SD, Don and I) had a wonderful day is the best gift.

FourEyes45

Whatd you get for your hoilday?
Hello All,My Son (wifes son) got me a Epson 2000. /wOW now to learn how to use it.Be SafeWalt

John Mueller

Humungus wrote:

........................aftershave.

Gus,your one lucky SOB

Dani

From AJ I got:
Lensbaby 2.0
Microcosmos DVD

from my parents:
$100.00 B&H gift card
Ansel Adams at 100 softcover
America Wide book of panoramic photos
How to Get the Most From Your Digital Camera
Clothes
Box set of sci-fi/fantasy books
Plextor DVD-RW drive (cause the one on my pc took a crap)

from my sister:
Matched set of his and hers watches for me and AJ

from AJ's parents:
Clothes
travel survival kit
chocolate!

bfjr

homemade oatmeal/raisin cookies
homemade beef jerky
Oh yeah a Gitzo 1325 if I go buy it myself

:eat :food

Ann McRae

a slik monopod to replace the manfrotto one I seem to have lost how can you loose a monopod????

a gift card to a day spa, a clothing store, several scarves - three hand made by the giver

a happy family - for us regaining some financial control and security brings a lot less stress and a lot more good spirits

visits with sisters/cousins from out of town


I gave a couple of my photos, to great appreciation. that was a pretty good gift.


a brown Christmas - not that that is so good but the warm temps and safe driving are sure nice

ann

GraphyFotoz

Ann McRae wrote:

a slik monopod to replace the manfrotto one I seem to have lost how can you loose a monopod????

Probably easy....mine is all black....I guess I'd better keep my eye on it not get lazy and lay it down in the woods!!

GraphyFotoz

GraphyFotoz wrote:

I got Zip....Nada in the way of Photographic stuff.:cry
Matter of fact I didn't get a lot of anything!

Guess I'm the only one in My/Her Family that takes my photography seriously?

I retract this statement!

I JUST bought MYSELF a bigger backPack!
Thanx to selling my extention tube I had the $$.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ME!! :lol4

Got one of these
http://www.fredmiranda.com/reviews/showproduct.php?product=267&cpage=1&perpage=15&cat=50#poststart

DanielB

GraphyFotoz wrote:

I retract this statement!

I JUST bought MYSELF a bigger backPack!
Thanx to selling my extention tube I had the $$.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ME!! :lol4

Got one of these
http://www.fredmiranda.com/reviews/showproduct.php?product=267&cpage=1&perpage=15&cat=50#poststart

nice backpack. i have exact one, and it won't let ya down.

ya just gotta know how to take off the Canon labels.

GraphyFotoz

DanielB wrote:

nice backpack. i have exact one, and it won't let ya down.

ya just gotta know how to take off the Canon labels.

Read those reviews some tell ya how!

babybluetx23

Ok just to start off here, My husband and I ONLY do Christmas. We dont do birthdays, valentines, Anniversary, or anything else like that, Just Christmas. So we go ALL out for Christmas.
I got:

A new motherboard
Dual core processor
3 gigs of ram
A new Video Card
An External Hard Drive Case with a 300 gig Sata Drive
A 6 port USB 2.0 hub
Canon Deluxe Backpack 200 EG
Sigma 70 - 300mm 1:4 - 5.6 DG
Quantaray QDC 900WA Flash
An Extra battery for my Digital Reble
A HUGE Graphics Tablet
Canon Manual Shutter release
A Bogen Tripod and 3030 head
A Bogen Monopod with Head
and a UV Filter for my new lens
And a 20 inch wide screen Dell Flat Panel

I think I am missing a few items, but that is the main list of my Christmas Goodies!

canderson

I know how you feel

GraphyFotoz wrote:

I got Zip....Nada in the way of Photographic stuff.:cry
Matter of fact I didn't get a lot of anything!

Guess I'm the only one in My/Her Family that takes my photography seriously?

I am in the same boat. I did give a few National Geographic books, as well as A dvd slideshow of old family pictures......

Maybe next year....

Justiceiro

My hetero life partner and I blew all our money for the year during a trip to SE asia in November; so christmas was a little thin.

Nevertheless, I did get some nice photogear:

Canon 35-135mm USM lens :, used from Adorama, where I was RUTHLESSLY upsold. Looks a little beat up, but works great.

Cokin P filter set up with 3 neutral density filters.

non-photogear:

Boxed set of "band of brothers" DVD
Freakonomics

and the best gift of all, my friend Cesar caught the DSLR bug and got a 350d, so now we can exchange lenses!

DanielB

Justiceiro wrote:

non-photogear:

Boxed set of "band of brothers" DVD

i want that soooo bad :bluduh

Justiceiro

DanielB wrote:

i want that soooo bad :bluduh

It is remarkably sweet, I must say. Now I just need to find 10 hours to watch it.

WWII party at my apartment this weekend!:D

spartan123

Zuiko OM 50 f/1.2
Zuiko OM 35-70 f/3.6
Grip for Oly E-300
Remote for Oly E-300

Some toys for my Canons also...

digismile

A new Baby for Christmas
In Edmonton Santa brought me:
A couple of photoshop books that I asked for
A new 60Gb IPod to replace the one that light-fingered Louie took ....
The usual assortment of clothes

We then traveled 3800km to Montreal to have a new baby:




Ours is the blue one! A little band of brothers only 7 weeks old. His name is Gilligan. To understand the name you need to know that our other dog is named Buddy. Therefore the connection (for those that remember the TV show... Gilligan was called Little Buddy)

This is the two boys waiting for us to arrive from the airport. Don't parents normally wait for the baby to arrive!?!

The other baby's name is Charlot (pronounced Shar-low), french for Charlie

Jnichols

digismile wrote:

In Edmonton Santa brought me:
A couple of photoshop books that I asked for
A new 60Gb IPod to replace the one that light-fingered Louie took ....
The usual assortment of clothes

We then traveled 3800km to Montreal to have a new baby:




Ours is the blue one! A little band of brothers only 7 weeks old. His name is Gilligan. To understand the name you need to know that our other dog is named Buddy. Therefore the connection (for those that remember the TV show... Gilligan was called Little Buddy)

This is the two boys waiting for us to arrive from the airport. Don't parents normally wait for the baby to arrive!?!

The other baby's name is Charlot (pronounced Shar-low), french for Charlie

They are precious! My daughters wanted a new puppy for Christmas but their mommy is allergic to cats and dogs ( So I couldn't get what they asked for...

Let's see if I can remember what I got for Christmas!

-John Mayer Trio "Try" CD
-"Brothers Grimm" DVD
-Lightsphere II
-A rather large Photoshop CS2 book
-Some money (can't go wrong there!)
-Candle
-An indoor grill.

That's it! We had a wonderful Christmas - although I WANTED a white Christmas - no such thing in Alabama (