Heya folks!

I finally got a new camera.
It's not a Canon 40D like I planned, it's its elder sister, a Canon EOS 30D and I'm totally happy with it.
I love it.
All I need to do now is get some money together for some nice lenses to work with. Think I'll start with the Canon 50mm f/1.8. It's cheap and good for starters, especially for portraits.
Canon-users, am I right?

In other news:
I was in Sibiu yesterday to see In Extremo on the first day of the "Rockin' Transilvania" open air fest and I must say I was really disappointed...
Why? First of all: I had to leave my camera at home because photographing was only permitted to the press... Officially... But unofficially there were a lot people with point-and-shoot and DSLR cameras on site who had nothing to do with the press... Stupid thing is that I asked the staff if I can bring my camera and they said: "Not a press photographer? Then you're not allowed to take pictures... Sorry..." That sucked... But anyways...
Second thing that contributed to my being disappointed with the whole event was the fact that there were very few people present... I think less than 100... That is ridiculous for an open air fest...
Furthermore it seemed to me that the organizers were somewhat eager to get the bands to finish their performances and have them off stage so that they can leave for home... I had this feeling especially during the performance of In Extremo... It looked like they were being rushed to finish playing and get going.... They used maybe half the pyro they had at the concert last year and you could feel in the way they sounded that they were anything else but happy with the situation... No wonder... I'm sure they're not used to play in front of a handful of people, most of them being too drunk to realize what's happening in front of them on the stage... Too bad... Really...
Can't say much about the other bands that played, because I'm not really a fan of them...

Lineup at "Rockin' Transilvania" 2009:
*13.06.09:
BETRAYER
FORTUNETELLER
L.O.S.T.
R.U.S.T.
SPECTRAL
THUNDERSTORM
X-PLOD (all from RO)

SUPERBUTT (Hungary)
KORPIKLAANI (Finland)
IN EXTREMO (Germany)

*14.06.09:
CONTRADICTION (Germany)
DESTRUCTION (Germany)
BONFIRE (Germany)
JON OLIVA'S PAIN (U.S.A.)
STRATOVARIUS (Finland)

There was one tiny little good part about "only press photographers being allowed to shoot during the show" bla bla: I met a chick who works for some newspaper and she let me take a few shots while security wasn't looking during InEx's show (I stood in the front row of course ), with her camera, a Canon 40D equipped with a Canon 70-200mm f2.8 IS L lens... Some hot toy...
I gave her my email address and asked her to send me "my" photos. If she does, you'll find them in my gallery soon.

The featured photos this time will be concert photos, of InEx especially.
Here they are: