yay :)

i feel like a little kid (ok more like a big kid) on christmas morning.
I've been literally salivating over a new lens for my camera for MONTHS and i finally found a really good deal, broke down, bought it and it arrived in the mail today :) <--- BIG SMILE
it's a canon EF 50mm f1.4 which basically means that i can now take pictures with fantastic 'bokeh' (sounds like hebrew to me and didn't know what it meant either, but apparently that's the word real photographer's use when they mean that they're going to blur out the background of a picture and have a very small field of focus)




while i was doing laundry over at lindsey's she was kind enough to let me borrow her dog, take pictures of her stuff and even spill coffee beans all over the table to try it out. let me tell you it's AWESOME--see for yourself below. i can't even imagine how much better they'll look when i actually know what i'm doing with it! ever since i've had this camera i've tried to keep the thing on manual and have succeeded in doing so for probably about 90% of the time, may not sound like a big deal but it can take me about eleventy-two different tries to get a picture that looks mostly right to me after i've messed around and adjusted the shutter speed, ISO, aperture and manually focused the damned thing without using a flash. oh well, at least i'm learning and having a good time doing it. maybe i should get a book on it...




keith's coming up tonight for the weekend, and as excited as i am about this lens i'm even more ecstatic about seeing him <3