lensbaby

Mon­day, I:

• wrote 1,100 words in the morn­ing (even­tu­al­ly)
• went for a 11 km bike ride (top speed, com­ing down a hill: 48.5 km/h)
  • while out rid­ing, I took pho­tos using only my less­er-used lens­es (the Lens­ba­by 2.0 I bought from my hair­dress­er and the Solig­or 35mm f/2.8 I bought at the 2019 Dun­rea Flea Market)

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This rein­forces my pre­vi­ous expe­ri­ence with the Lens­ba­by lens: it’s great for macro shots, like the one with the sin­gle stalk of flow­ers against the grass, but in most oth­er uses it reduces most if not all of the frame to an impres­sion­is­tic blur. If that’s your aes­thet­ic, great, but more often than not I’m dis­ap­point­ed in the pho­tos I take with it.

It’s still fun to play with, though.

• wrote 1,000 more words before sup­per (a lot of con­ver­sa­tion; sto­ries being told)
• evad­ed clouds and fog (oh my so much fog — I had to change loca­tions 3 times because fog rolled in) to cap­ture shots of Comet NEOWISE and the Milky Way

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The bluer pho­to of the comet, the close-up, was tak­en with my 50mm f/1.8 lens. Look close­ly, and you’ll find I caught both tails. You might have to view the pho­to at full size.

As always: if you’re inter­est­ed in prints of any of these pho­tos, let me know. We’ll see what we can work out.