I ordered my Nikon D4 in the start of January when Nikon announced it. I sold my Nikon D700 right away to a buddy looking to get into the game, and then later Nikon delayed the release of the D4 from January to March. Yes, it was the suck. I had no camera to shoot with.

Ah well, the day has come and the D4 has arrived. unboxing time.

Nikon included a 16 gig XQD card and card reader. XQD is the future for cards for cameras, as in.. you know that SD card or CF card you have now in your camera? Next year’s model of that camera, or the year after depending on your camera and how up to date they are.. will all be XQD. XQD is the fastest card possible, and they can go all the way up to 4 gig currently. The ones for sale stop at 32 gigs right now, but this is changing as well.

Being that I am in Canada, my Nikon has two manuals, one in English, in French.

Right out of the box, I am blown away with how light this is. All I had read in reviews was “what a tank it is” and what not. I am thinking the reviewers shoot with small compact cameras or smaller dlsrs without pro grip/extra batteries. That makes sense to me anyway.

This is lighter than a D700 with pro grip and extra battery. I weighed mine before selling it, this is 1.1 pounds lighter then D700, pro grip, extra battery in pro grip. That might not seem like much, but it adds up.

Holy shit.. TWO battery charger included! Nice!

Breaks down how much time you have shooting. this is cool.

The battery that comes with it is said to be good for 2600 shots. I’d like a second battery as a back up me thinks.

So there you have it, I have not started to shoot with it yet, I just started to play with the menus. The LCD screen on the back, wow. The resolution looks like an iphone 4s, so clear, almost like a video game.

The two card slot set up, you can have it write in overflow meaning one card is full, it writes to second card. You can set it for back up so it writes to one, then copies to other.. or you can write in raw / jpeg so it is putting raw pix on card A, jpegs on card b.

Seriously, in the ten minutes I have played with this camera, I can tell you one thing. My game has changed.

B and I are shooting Friday or Saturday for next week’s update.. wish me luck!

Some of you have noticed some changes in the @Bryci flow of things in the past week. We added a video to http://bryci.com called Ice Ice baby that set a few of you ablaze and then followed it up this week with the Hitachi video Bryci made literally. yesterday. No joke, she made the video, I edited it, compressed it, uploaded it and put it live all inside a couple hours. All in 1920 × 1080 true HD goodness.

Yes, some changes have been made.

This of course brings upon a few armchair quarterbacks that will have assumptions or guesses as to why we took this turn. I could go into great detail but truth is, I’m not Bryci. (shocker, my boobs are not as much fun as hers). Maybe instead I copy/paste the exact blog quote on her site, sound better? What’s better than learning the truth from the girl herself?

OK, so all day today my email inbox has lit up with questions and comments about my recent video, so in an effort to not tire out my fingers from typing a ton of emails I thought I’d write a quick dear diary for everyone

The general question is, what’s up with your new video? What made you choose to go further?

Well, some of you may know that I have been in the adult industry for a while even before my own website launched so it’s not like this is all brand new to me. I love sex, I love being happy, I think we should all be so lucky as to have both! Anyway, I thought long and hard if I was comfortable with doing a site before I started modeling because I didn’t want to do something I’d regret. I’m happy to say that I’ve loved every day of it so far! So please know that this decision was just the same as the first, thought out long and hard with no input from anyone. I talked it over with a few friends, then shelved the idea, then brought it back up, then shelved, and maybe it’s just me getting more comfortable in my own skin but finally I said ENOUGH! I am done living for other people’s happiness, or what others may think of me. We only have one life that we know of, and time slips away so fast it scares me sometimes. I said enough, and chose to make my own day to day happiness top priority!

So with that said, I’m taking my site and my members and myself on a wild ride. I want to have fun, be me, and experience new things and share these experiences with you all. I’m still the shy girl next door so I’ll warm up after some practise Excuse the videos being ultra long but I like having multiple orgasms :O hahaha!

I’m sure some people may wish that I stayed a nude model, and others will be happy.. but I’ve got to do what makes ME happy so I hope you have fun with that or at least can respect that I will have fun with it <3 I just wanted all my loving fans to know that I am happy and I did this for me

So there you have it. I had sweet fuck all to do with it. Yes, I was asked extensively what i thought about this or that, but in a way that I never knew it was regarding her. B is a smart cookie, she does her thinking and then when she’s ready to let me in on things, she does. When i found out what her thoughts on this were, I was caught off guard a little. I told her rule #1, do it for fun, do it for her. Don’t do for your fans, or money, or fame. Do it because you want to explore, and if this is the right step to take, so be it. After all, it’s not like she’s taking on a football team. Why this sort of thing is viewed as taboo to some is confusing to me, but to each their own of course.

She took my words and pondered them for awhile or so, and boom, here we are. I’m sure some will love, some will hate, it’s all part of the game. I’m sure I’ll read some fucktard saying she was broke and needed to do this or something equally as hilarious. Truth is, as with her own site, it was never about the money. It was always about having fun and being her.

As for what the future holds.. pffft fuck if I know. I mean, I know a few things not written here but we’ll wait and see what’s what, ya know?

I for one am damn proud of Bryci. From day one she has done her site by her rules. She has not tried to be someone else, she has not listened to what people told her she ‘must do’ to survive in the biz. She’s been true to herself, and that’s it. Her fans adore her near as I can tell, and I adore them for respecting her as they do.

Bryci is a force not to be reckoned with and if you’re a member of http://bryci.com.. you’ll soon see why.

The JamesDot Girl Galleries are now back! They feature every single Bella promo gallery that has ever existed. 523 Galleries containing 7,849 Images so far.

These are FREE galleries for promotional use, so you can see what we’re about inside the network. These are promo galleries, they have 15 images each where as the full set has 50-150 images. Always cracks me up when i see losers posting Bryci site, Katie Banks site rip, Talia Shepard site rip, Kiss Kara site rip, Monroe Lee site rip, Ava dawn site rip.

Their so called site rips are usually promo content we give out for free but they think it’s the full sites. HA! Morons.

The network itself right now has 36388 photos, 692 Videos and that’s up to date as of Feb 1, 2012.

I’m working on a huge multi model site right now for the network that will go live in February sometime that will push that number closer to the 75,000 – 100,000 image mark and up. Yes, it’s included for free for Bella members.

I sort of took January off to heal and get better but hey, last time I checked… it’s FEBRUARY now.

Time to rock some shit.

Go check the latest galleries if you’re bored! Click the image below to go there, or click girls above, either way works.

Fuck yeah, I’m baaaaack

ps.. I mentioned all those ‘site rips’ for google.. some idiot will search for that term later.. ie Bryci site rip and this site will come up.

Well, it’s official. I am a D4.

I just bought a Nikon D4. I could go into the pluses, minuses of the camera but it’d come off like a tech blog and many could care less. So instead, some eye candy.

What you need to know.. the pixels are larger. Meaning, the quality of my photos will be improving. Yaaaaaay!

I’d tell you about the megapixels (16.2) but that doesn’t really matter. It’s the size of the pixels that matters. Many people think higher the megapixel, the better the pic, but this is not always true. Once you pass 10/12 mp, it becomes irrelevant unless you’re printing billboards and even then, doesn’t make a monster difference. What does matter, is the pixel size and sensor size. The larger the pixel, the clearer the pixel. Just because you have more, smaller pixels, doesn’t mean you get a better image. Make sense? if not, check this article from 2008.

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The camera is made from Magnesium Alloy. So that’s nice… light, strong as hell.

This video made me cry tears of happiness.

The camera records using compression B to .h264. HELL YEAH!

A video shot 100% with the D4

Does it seem like I am excited? You would be correct if you made that assumption.

Last May area, Kara from Kiss Kara and I spoke for the first time. @tweetkisskara for those of you in twitterland

We had traded tweets or whatever, like anyone does.. but this was different. She was on a mission. She approached me and asked me if I’d be interested in working with her. She had watched how we work with Bella. She was friends with Katie Banks, one of the Bella ladies and had spoken to her about Bella. She liked what we were doing, and she liked how I was treating the ladies I work with.

I’ll be the first to tell you, I make mistakes. I’m human. I fuck up. We all do. Nobody out there is perfect, every model and every webbie has their good points, and their not so good points. I’m no different really. I can honestly tell you that i treat the girls I work with the same way I’d want another webbie to treat Bryci if she was working with someone else. As in, if I wasn’t her photographer, her webmaster etc and we were just dating. If she was still a model, working with someone else, I’d want her treated with the utmost respect.

I try and treat the Bella ladies this way and sometimes I succeed, other times I might fall short. We’re human and sure, we’ve had disagreements here and there as any friendship or working relationship might. I’m not perfect, I don’t ask the ladies to be. We’re just trying to have fun, ya know? I’m pretty sure each and every Bella would say good things of me. Ex Bellas.. most likely not so much. I’ve unfortunately had to let one go along the way for undisclosed reasons I don’t feel are necessary to be discussed. Otherwise, it’s a perfect record. It’s funny how if you treat people with respect and work hard on their behalf, they often respond the same way.

When Kara sought me out, telling me she was going to buy her website out from her old webmaster, and she wanted me to run her new site.. I was flabbergasted. I was stunned. I was in disbelief. Nobody does this, first off. I can’t think of many webmasters that would sell the model her site if they weren’t going to work together. It just doesn’t happen in this biz. Secondly, I didn’t have time to be someone else’s webmaster. I was and am committed to the Bella ladies. That is, unless Kara wanted to join our little army… whoa, that’d be cool as hell.

Side reference to something I said earlier in regards to how webbies don’t offer to sell a site to a girl they are not working with For the record, I did offer to sell the only ex Bella (M) her website, not once but twice after it became apparent we were not compatible working together. Price wise.. a mere fraction of what I could had asked publicly for it. It was a small price and she’d have full ownership. I did try and do what I felt was the ‘right’ thing, but it was ignored. No worries. I am sure there were/are reasons and that’s cool, I respect those. I wish her nothing but the best of luck with her future. As I said though, this sort of thing (webbies playing nice) doesn’t happen in the business very often.

So when Kara told me she was going to buy her site, I thought she was possibly being very, very optimistic. (*very* optimistic)

We talked more and more over the upcoming months and I can still recall her email to me when she took possession of her site. She was JACKED THE FUCK UP excited!

She did it!!

So then the thought of working with Kara became something of a reality.

Anyone that knows me, knows I am *very* picky about who I add to Bella. I want to center myself with people that work hard, and are committed to their members. I don’t want to have to make up stories of why there isn’t an update this week. I want members to feel good in their decision to join a girl’s site. Again, I’m not perfect by any means but I work hard and I ask those that I work along side, to join me in working hard. Crazy, I know.

If I approach a girl about being part of Bella, I see something in her that I feel would compliment what we’re doing. Ethics and hard work are the two key factors I look for. Hotness is also on the list, of course. Dur. :p

I digress…

Kara is now pat of Bella Familia and we couldn’t be happier!

She just finished shooting with Katie Banks recently and rumor has it.. 2012 has some big things in store for us all.

So, Kara, I’d like to take this opportunity to publicly apologize. I should have never doubted you for a second. Lesson learned.

Welcome to Bella!

Make sure your seat belt is fastened, seat backs and tray tables are in their upright and locked positions, and all of your carry on items should be securely stowed.

We’re about to blast the fuck off.

http://kisskara.com is her site and if you join it, you get access to all the Bella sites. I am adding new, never before seen photos of Kara this week!

Go read Kara’s blog for her take on joining Bella! > > > http://kisskara.com/blog/