figures

things i'm trying to find always show themselves after I've bought a new one. It always happens.

Sunday I returned home from a long, slow day at work to find a box sitting on my dining room table. It is a gold box, a gold Nikon D70s outfit box. I just new it would have magical things in it. And it did.

It has two lens caps I've been looking the world over for, but haven't purchased new.
a digital flash and a digital NK module. neither of which were being purchased or in my budget for that matter.
a few random instruction booklets.
a case for the lens on the D70s.

AND A UV filter. a UV filter. i just bought one of these on FRIDAY. WHY PEOPLE. I know it doesn't hurt to have two. But, you see, its just how things go for me. I figured all the treasures in my lovely home had been found. I was wrong. Needless to say, I now am the proud owner of two UV filters for my camera (as well as a polarizing filter, neutral density, and warming).

and now that I have all these things, I need a little camera god to explain this whole flash thing to me... not the mathematical equations to determine the appropriate distance, not the angels of illumination. I am a math genius people, ok? I can do complicated equations in my HEAD. I don't even own a calculator! (Total lie. I own one to help me do risk calculations, only because I don't crystal ball software, ok?). Point is, how do you make this damn thing fire its bright little light!!

Oh, and while I'm hoping and wishing there are more magical boxes like this one hidden, I'm hoping there is one with a 100mm macro lens as well. Ok? Ok.