![]() Enough for all five of my lenses, camera body, external flash, jacket, and lunch. Super useful in the tropics!Īnd of course, there is lots and lots of space. The bag also has a rain cover that I use in order to protect my gear from downpours. This is key when I’m under time pressure, or when I’m in muddy/sandy areas and don’t want to set down my equipment. The quick access feature allows me to reach all my gear without taking off my bag. There’s also a comfortable waist strap which takes the weight off my shoulders and allows me to hike effortlessly with 10-20 pounds loaded (AKA up to about 10 kilos). My camera bag is the Lowepro Flipside Trek BP 350 AW, which is perfectly suited for my style of photography. I don’t want to make this article much of a review for each of my items, but more to share my thought process behind each piece of equipment and how they fit my needs. ![]() And because anything can happen when I’m out, I usually carry my entire kit with me at once. Regardless, they usually require putting in several miles on foot to locate, so I try to keep my kit light. Sometimes it’s large vipers, sometimes tiny frogs. Typically when I set out, I have a species or two in mind. And if I don’t see anything, I’ll settle with a landscape. That said, I’m happy to photograph any animal I see. So, my gear is specialized for images taken at close range, due to my small subjects. Panasonic G Vario 100-300mm f/4-5.6 telephotoĪlthough I’m a wildlife photographer, my focus usually is not charismatic megafauna – instead, it’s reptiles and amphibians.Spot gold added 0.4per cent to US$1,648.39 an ounce. Softness in the greenback gave a lift to gold prices. crude settled down 0.18per cent to close at US$85.46 per barrel, while Brent settled at US$91.62 per barrel, essentially flat on the day. The Japanese yen weakened 0.19per cent versus the greenback at 149.06 per dollar, while sterling was last trading at US$1.135, up 1.61per cent on the day.Ĭrude prices oscillated as markets juggled signs of looming recession and China's continued loose monetary policy. The dollar index fell 1.02per cent, with the euro up 1.19per cent to US$0.9835. The euro and sterling gained strength following Hunt's announced policy announcement, causing the greenback to lose ground against a basket of major world currencies. The 30-year bond last fell 23/32 in price to yield 4.0214per cent, from 3.975per cent late on Friday. Long-dated Treasury yields turned higher late in a choppy session for the bond market, even as investor sentiment eased in the wake of the British policy about-face.īenchmark 10-year notes last fell 3/32 in price to yield 4.0166per cent, from 4.006per cent late on Friday. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan closed 0.19per cent lower, while Japan's Nikkei lost 1.16per cent. The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 1.83per cent and MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe gained 2.09per cent.Įmerging market stocks rose 0.32per cent. Meanwhile, the easing yuan weighed on Asian markets. That reversal has "lifted some clouds, but it doesn't lift the political risk," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities in New York, who added that the new government formed by British Prime Minister Liz Truss "has caused a lot of uncertainties." Įuropean stocks closed sharply higher on the UK's financial policy reversal. ![]() The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 550.99 points, or 1.86per cent, to 30,185.82, the S&P 500 gained 94.88 points, or 2.65per cent, to 3,677.95 and the Nasdaq Composite added 354.41 points, or 3.43per cent, to 10,675.80. ![]() Stocks were primed for a strong open after Britain's new finance minister Jeremy Hunt scrapped Prime Minister Liz Truss's proposed tax cuts and reined in her energy subsidies, while Bank of America Corp posted consensus-beating third quarter results, having benefited from a spate of interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve. "Now, investors are looking for green shoots of catalysts that can start to provide some improvement." "The catalysts that have triggered in the markets year-to-date are well-known," said Joseph Sroka, chief investment officer at NovaPoint in Atlanta. stock indexes rallied to end the session 1.9per cent to 3.4per cent higher while and the dollar lost ground against a basket of world currencies. NEW YORK : Wall Street jumped to robust gains on Monday as solid earnings and a financial policy reversal in Britain fueled risk appetite and boosted the sterling and euro against the greenback.Īll three major U.S. ![]()
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