The New Lens.

Remember about the drama over my new camera lens? Well I had the chance to use it while I was voluntold to accompany my parents down South. So while there, I took a TON of pictures. Most of the pictures came out crappy but a few came out pretty decent:

I took quite a few pictures when we went to Coca Cola World in Atlanta…

and while in Atlanta, when we visited the largest aquarium in the world…

It was beyond awesome, as well as beyond crowded, but I still love fishy!

And I can’t forget about family, friends, and family friends…

And (apologies to any vegetarians in advance) of a Barbecue…

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And the results thereof…

I love my new lens

Revenge is Sweet

So I’ve disappeared for about a week because I was voluntold to go on a family trip to visit relatives down south. Over the past week I’ve had the not so wonderful chance to spend nights in a shared hotel room with my younger brother.

Not. Cool.

Yes, we may have  had separate beds. But still.  This kid farts at least once every minute. And he is still in that I-am-a-teenager-so-I-don’t-want-anything-to-do-with-anybody-and-I-hate-the-world-and-my-family stage.

So I may or may not have taken hundreds of embarrassing photos of him while he was in various stages of sleep, and I may or may not have posted them on facebook. Cold hearted, I know but a girl can only take so much.

Luckily I am nice enough to not post the worst ones to my blog. I’m the best sister ever, huh?

15 days into a self-hosted wordpress.

I just entered in one of ThePioneerWoman’s contests for a Nikon 50mm 1.4 lens (it’s much better than the aforementioned lens but about twice as expensive). I’m sort of excited about since I just posted about wanting a lens badly.  My chances of winning are slim though.  Thousands of people have already entered

In other news I am liking the transition I have made from blogger to a self-hosted wordpress I have been at this location for exactly 15 days and am finding the response phenomenal.  My traffic has probably been more these past 15 days than in the entire 3 months I spent on blogger combined! (Minus the blog party day).

Bokeh and a Question

I’m really into photography. And I am crazy about bokeh. I purchased a Nikon D60 a few months ago but haven’t got a chance to use it like I would like. I have been eyeballing the 50mm f/1.8 lens from Nikon. It’s a great prime lense and does fantastic bokeh. Apparently the lense that comes with the camera doesn’t produce the bokeh I am looking for because of the lack of a low “1.8″ f-stop.  The lower the f-stop the better the bokeh (well not really since this isn’t the only factor…but i shan’t bore you).

In case you don’t know what bokeh it’s “The pleasing quality of the out of focus areas of an image, produced by the lens. Derived from the Japanese word for fool”

And just in case you didn’t know this is bokeh

This is bokeh

This is bokeh

I love bokeh.

Get it?

Should I buy the lense?