Adi & Cari
One bright spot from my long (soon to be detailed) apartment closing was that I was in town for Adi and Cari’s tests at the dojo. Adi was testing for sankyu, and Cari for nikkyu. Both did very well, better than I remember (or not remember) my own nikkyu and sankyu going. Congrats!
Here are some of the pictures from the test:
(There were a total of 230 images (thank god for cheap 1GB CF cards) of which about 50-some were post-worthy (thank god for the D70 burst mode). I’m, of course, absent from the majority of these, though Itai took a few that came out when I was working with Cari on grabs. Adi has CDs of all the full-sized images. Autofocus was a bit off in a lot of cases. Amusingly, there’s one shot where the AF got the live blade perfectly, with bokeh everywhere else.)