Canon 70-200mm L F2.8 USM

I wants it.

I wants it now.

But alas it's not to be. I went to my last Blue Jays game of the year on Sunday with a coworker. I was supposed to go with my wife, but her back has been out for a few days. I've never had such a hard time in my life giving something away, but it was nigh impossible to give away this (pretty decent) baseball ticket. I finally managed to sucker, errr, convince once of my coworkers to come with.

I was originally going to bring my camera with me to take some photos at the game, something I had yet to date done. I decided for whatever reason not to, but the mere thought of it got me looking again at lenses. I'd love to have a nice sports photography lens, and it's really too bad that I don't have the coin for it at the moment, because I'm in love with a few of the Canon L series lenses.

I could also snag a Sigma 70-200mm 2.8 for my Canon, which is more attainable price wise but still out of reach at the moment.

I feel like my current equipment wouldn't do what I want, and admittedly I haven't tried but I do feel I have a valid concern in that my lens would not be fast enough. You see, with f-stop of only 4-5.6, reality is I would not be able to go to the shutter speed I want without horribly horribly underexposing my pictures most likely. In retrospect I do wish I'd brought the camera because I should have tested it out but oh well... There is always next year right? I know that's what the Jays are saying after finishing under .500.......

Today's picture is one a friend asked me to take for his class. He had to get a picture taken of him that he felt best represented himself. I'm told it is well composed and that stylistically it's in the right 3 thirds or some crap position... So.... Go me!

Traitor.

According to my co-workers I'm a traitor.

Not because I'm jumping ship.
Not because I'm quitting. (I'm not)
Not for any reason other than I no longer wear a blackberry around my hip.

I switched to an iPhone. *gasp* *shocked look* *blank expression* *sound of a woman screaming and fainting* *a small baby crying* ooook...... enough of that.

Yeah I did it, and honestly even without the lack of pin, which is what blackberry is. A Pin messaging system wrapped in a pleasing design, and if you say differently, then you are provably wrong. Lots of phones do what Blackberry does, and do it better. But anyways, even without pin, I'm finding myself maybe a little happier with my iPhone. Time will tell if the euphoria will last or if I'm just kidding myself. They call them crackberries for a reason...

On an unrelated note, here is another sampling from the zoo.

The African Zebra.

Old Habits...

Once upon a time I had a Live Journal.

I spent hours and hours setting it up all nice like.

One day, the same people who decide if hem lines are above the knee this year, and below again next year. The same people who decide if denim is cool or if we're all going to wear Khaki for a while. The same people who decide if hatchbacks are the in thing or if full size sedans are hip.

Well those same people decided that we were all going to move to mySpace. No I said. Forget that I said. I refuse I said. And I swore off "blogs".

I have no mySpace, I have no facebook, I have no live journal. I have my thoughts and my pictures and all I want is somewhere personal to share my favourites.

This is that space.


So here is my friend Chloe's son Ben, from our trip to the zoo.