Even though my grandaughter,Robyn, left almost a week ago, I'm still recovering. I still need to get her pictures up.

Tuesday I met with a client. It happens that he needs to do 20x30 digital prints and wants to buy a printer that would reside at my house and I would do his printing. He kept talking trying to sell me on the concept. I was willing to say YES right at the beginning but I waited until he finally paused to agree. He needs a 24" wide printer and my vote was for a 24" HP Z3100. He probably won't be able to move on it until this summer, which is fine since I would have to finish off a room in the basement for it. Zoe wasn't excited about have a really large printer as the center of attention in the living room. I would be able to use it for my own printing. There still a few odds and ends I need for the fourth flash.

I have some product photography to do so I'm finally setting up my small-flash strobe kit.

This may be the last hot light shot. It's of my small-flash kit. (Thanks to Strobist.) Two Vivitar 285HVs and two Vivitar 283s along with three umbrella swivels that have an accessory shoe for the flashes and mount on light stands. I have two light stands (not shown) and super clamp, behind the 15 ft. pc cord for mounting the umbrella swivels. In the back are a couple of 43" collapsible umbrellas with a black removable cover so they can be shot into or through. The main flash is fired by a Wein safe synch hot shoe. The Pentax *ist DL doesn't have a pc synch. The Wein fits on the camera hot show and provides a pc synch but the Wein didn't work it fired once in about 40 tries. There are a couple of different optical slaves for firing the other flashes. I'm really anxious to start using these becasue they will give me a lot more flexibility for lighting but I will have to wait until B&H opens back up Wednesday to see if they will exchange the Wein hot shoe. Right now I'm using a pc cord but I will eventually make up some household cords for the flash. This is really a cheap way to get into strobes. I bought one new Vivitar 285HV for $90 and a used one for $45. I bought a used Vivitar for $20 and already had the other. Most of the other gear I bought at Midwest Photo Exchange. They have reasonable prices on lighting gear. Let there be light!