New Camera!!

So a dear friend of mine decided to sell his Nikon D200. It had all kinds of goodies with it, including a battery grip! DH and discussed it and he agreed I could buy IF I could sell my Nikon D40. My D40 has been such a wonderful camera, and I definitely wanted it to go to someone who would really appreciate it. And it did, the proud new owner is one of my friends at work.
I was free to buy the D200. I LOVE it!! It's amazing.
I also learned something new: Kinetics. Kinetics is an experimental photographic technique in which the photographer uses movement resulting from physics to create an image. I attempted this by zooming in to the object during a long exposure. I had fun trying it out. My object was my silver jewelry box with my engagement ring in the center, and the box was on black satin place mats. The first version came out looking like an x-ray, pretty cool. But then I amped up the blacks and the contrast and got this eye catching image:



SO fun!!