 The ideal camera bag is comfortable for extended wear, cute, and roomy enough to fit basics and essentials: your DSLR camera (most bags fit the popular Canon and Nikon bodies), an extra battery, a flash, an extra lens, and cleaning supplies. Camera bags need to protect your gear and give a way to transport wherever you need to shoot.
As a female photographer, you might also be looking to consolidate bags. A bag that can also serve as a purse saves you from having to carry both a purse and a camera bag. Look for small and medium pockets where you can stash your wallet, cell phone, makeup, and other personal items you’d normally carry in your purse. Multiple pockets in smart places also help keep your bag organized. For style, you want something pretty and maybe even something discreet that doesn’t scream to the world that you’re carrying expensive SLR camera equipment. Camera Bag Styles
You can choose from several different styles, depending on your preference.
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Star Trek bath robe, available at www.squidoo.com/great-gifts-for-nerds Get geek gifts for the geek or nerd in your life. Nerds love toys, gadgets, t-shirts and pajamas, unique mugs, collectibles and fun things they can show off to their friends. A nerdy gift doesn’t have to be practical. It just has to be something that tickles their fancy, so have fun and while you’re shopping. Here’s our list of great geeky gift ideas. Why not buy them a gift from their favorite franchise? Collectible books, t-shirts, board games, prop replicas, and decorative gifts from Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings,The Walking Dead or Doctor Who, are all gifts that your geek would enjoy.
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I must admit, I’m hooked on nonstick cookware. It’s the easiest way to make egg white omelettes and to pan-fry tilapia filets — two of my favorite eats. The more I’ve used my nonstick pans, the more uses I’ve found for them. With all the heavy usage they get in my household, it’s important to make sure that they’re not causing any harm to my family’s health. I’m glad there are green alternatives for eco friendly cookware. Have you ever really thought about what’s in your nonstick cookware, or what happens when you heat it up? Traditional nonstick cookware contains PTFE, which is more commonly known by one of its brand names: Teflon. (T-fal is also PTFE based.) Studies have been done on the health effects of PTFE fumes to humans (and pets) when PTFE reaches high temperatures during cooking. As for the environmental effects, petroleum byproducts created during manufacturing end up in the soil and water supply.
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Everyone loves a versatile gift card — especially one that they can conveniently use online. Many people recently got an Amazon Kindle — one of the hottest gifts this past holiday season. Give them a Kindle card as a gift, and they’ll immediately be able to use it to buy content from the Kindle store and accessories for their Kindle with no hassles, no fees, and no expiration date. They can even use it to buy other stuff from Amazon. Best of all, they never have to worry about remembering to take the gift card with when they shop, This is one gift card that won’t end up unused.
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Ever wish you had a second oven? Why not try a countertop roaster oven? Owners of electric roasters love the convenience of cooking with them. What could be better than “set it and forget it” cooking? Just select your cooking settings and the roaster does the rest. Clean-up is easy, too, with removable cookwells that come in porcelain, enamel on steel, stainless steel, and nonstick. With a special insert, electric roaster ovens can also be used as buffet warmers for holiday entertaining. Just put in the 3-dish insert, set the roaster to the “Warming” setting, and place it in an accessible area where guests can serve themselves.
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