My new camera strap have arrived from B&H Photo in New York City. It is Blackrapid’s RS DR-1 Double Strap which has been getting great reviews. The main reason for buying this is for the London Marathon at the end of April when I am going to hire a second camera body to save me from changing lenses. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to test it out until the weekend … but the good news is that the weekend starts early on Friday and is four days long – its easter already!

I am really looking forward to out trip to Ladakh with Steve Davey. Having travelled with Steve to Morocco back in October (see my Morocco gallery), I have decided that it was such a great adventure that I want to another opportunity to develop my photography further and to visit another out of the way part of the world.

After talking to my wife, Helen, I have unexpectedly discovered that she is also interested in photography so she is also going to come on this trip to Ladakh.  I think the last time that Helen used an SLR it was back in the hay-day of film so we have bought her a new Digital SLR – Canon EOS 550D which is a great little camera.

			I have been working on a number of new enhancements to my photography site which includes a dedicated blog for photographic and the ability to add private galleries. The new blog has been the most important new feature and only the framework for private galleries has been implemented.   If you have any comments the please feel free to email me at neil@neilcordell.com or use my Contact page.

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