Do your powers help fight off rain? If so, we might need you to be at work in Brussels.

I'd like to stick with something smaller. For some strange reason, I don't like to travel through airports with a backpack. I plan on keeping the Urban Disguise for airport travel and then having a smaller camera back to hold the body and a copy lenses while I walk around my destination.

This is always a challenge for me. I have one of the backpack bags, which is awesome for the journey but entirely too bulky for walking around the destination (and I hate looking like a cheesey tourist). I often pack a small day bag or simply just carry my tiny canon while in cities.

You won't catch me leaving home without my urban sombrero.

I have done a lot of work around pro photogs at motorsports events and it is interesting to see what they use to transport their gear. Many use hard side case or even rollaboards to move everything around, both for ease of use and for safety. While on sight they all have different ideas, ranging from vests to fanny packs. Many told me they too prefer to be discrete while in cities, keeping small side bags.

Good group of people who always loved talking shop and let me play with their long lenses. I was stunned to see how close one could get from the roof of the Daytona Speedway tower!

One of these days I will upload some of my shots from Cleveland, MidOhio and Detroit. My shots from the 24hrs of Daytona are online already for those interested.

is it mariachi style ?

I have a Lowepro shoulder bag that I'm already starting to outgrow. It's packed tight but it's decently compact. I don't have it near me so I can't get the specs. It holds the XT with the 17-85 attached and I hide the nifty fifty/1.8 under that, and the 75-300 braces to the side in a pull strap. Downside: one of those pull straps loosened and let my 430EX flash disappear. :td: This bag also has a chest harness, but I think you'd look like you have some kind of odd medical attachment if you did.

I saw a guy in SGN walking around with a vest , it was easy for him to keep a lens in one of the many pocket and swap it out quickly, I usually carry my backpack around , but thought about getting a smaller bag to walk around with.

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I use a small shoulder bag that holds the DSLR and one extra lense. I'm constantly pulling the camera out and putting it back in to reduce the amount of time I flash it around and making it a tempting target. If I know I'm likely to take a bunch of photos in a short time, it stays out of the bag.

I've been trying to find a sling bag that looks like backback and not a camera bag.

IMHO it is just not a good idea to walk around advertising that you are carrying a lot of expensive equipment.

Please apply your :-:superpowers:-: to the ice build-up on my roof. My kitchen ceiling will be eternally grateful. :D

Leaks? If you have recessed light cans in your kitchen, they often melt the snow if they are close to the roof and cause ice dams and the melt water ends up finding alternative routes to the gound.

The ice damns are actually mid-roof and the water is finding it's way into a closet on my second floor, and then down into the kitchen. I had a new roof(complete tear off of the old one) about 5 years ago to correct this problem(specified twice as much as usual ice & water barrier to be used) and the problem re-occurred in the same place the very next winter. :insert MASSIVE rolleyes here: Roofer wouldn't come back. The problem spot is a valley where the snow builds up and the sun doesn't hit enough to clear off completely. I'll be investigating a heating cables or metal roof(cha-ching) this summer. I'm not really thrilled about climbing a ladder weekly to pull snow off the roof - not to mention the issue of falling.

When we moved from Hawaii to Maryland I learned all about ice damns. We lived thru the Blizzard of 96 (twice) and as I sat in our family room I looked over to the opening between it and the kitchen totally amazed. The paint was balloning up(or rather down) filled with water. The family room was a separate area attached to the main house. I got lucky in the fact that one of the bedrooms had a window that opened up to the joint area, where I could break up the ice damn from inside the house. But it was sure a PITA to deal with it. I can't tell you how many times I lost the poker and had to go outside and retrieve it.

We get ice damns in our gutters. If it gets too bad I lean out windows and throw salt around the drain pipes to get things moving.