Zambini's Photos » glow http://zambinidirect.com A Beginning Photo Blog Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:34:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 More Night Photography! Featuring: Merry-Go-Round! http://zambinidirect.com/2009/07/more-night-photography-featuring-merry-go-round/ http://zambinidirect.com/2009/07/more-night-photography-featuring-merry-go-round/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:55:39 +0000 Zambini http://zambinidirect.com/?p=498 Just had a night photography session a couple days ago, had lots of fun up on campus again. Good stuff.

All these were taken from the campus of UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California

Note: None of the photos in the gallery are edited, only a re-size and/or cropping. No color/level/hue adjustments have been made whatsoever. Some of the ones AFTER the night gallery, however, have been edited as such (they look noticeably different).

Where we're going, we don't need.... roads.... UP I'm being followed O Hi there Enjoyed sitting in the middle of the road Adorable baby bunny Beam me up, Scottie Overlayed two different shots from the same tripod ]]> http://zambinidirect.com/2009/07/more-night-photography-featuring-merry-go-round/feed/ 1 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Commemorative Coin http://zambinidirect.com/2009/04/stalker-commemorative-coin/ http://zambinidirect.com/2009/04/stalker-commemorative-coin/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:48:05 +0000 Zambini http://zambinidirect.com/?p=317 A while back (like 8 months ago now),  I was ecstatic to discover that a prequel to one of my favorite games of all time, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl, was about to release, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky.  Several weeks later, I was quite disheartened to discover that there was going to be no North American release of the Collector's Edition of Clear Sky. After reading what the Russian edition was going to contain (full detailed maps, a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. lighter, several iron-on patches of the various factions in Clear Sky, and a bunch of bonus DVD content, like the Making of, etc) and that I had no way of getting such an awesome collection, I signed the petition to GSC and THQ requesting a North American release of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky, collector's edition.

Sadly, they did not accept the petition. Lucky for the few dedicated S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fans, one lone ranger of awesome, Rhialto (view his website Here), decided to take it upon himself to create a very, very awesome piece of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. history.

Seven months later, after many problems and miles of red tape, this beautiful coin emerged from the factory, and eventually to my, and 99 other lucky souls' mailboxes. Beautiful.

Front side of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. coin

Front side of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. coin

Displaying the three main objects in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Displaying the three main objects in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

And a special surprise, when I turned out the lights

GET THAT S.E.V.A. SUIT ON!

GET THAT S.E.V.A. SUIT ON!

All in all, I still can't get over how awesome Rhialto is. This is an 8-month endeavor that must have had dozens of hours of paperwork to be filled out. Then to organize and them all, pure brilliance.

My PDA goes off to you, Rhialto, you truely are a S.T.A.L.K.E.R.!

note: more pretty photos (of other things) to be uploaded soon....
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