the essential kit

lenses!

A coworker of Ted’s is upgrading his camera kit to professional lenses, and thus is looking to get rid of several of his older ones. Ted brought them home for a trial run this week, and the past couple mornings I’ve put a different lens on and gone out. I shall continue to do this for two more days, with the rest of the lenses. I took the 50mm out yesterday. The last time I shot on a 50mm lens might have been high school, when I was learning the…

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Golden Sunset

Kitsnaps: Golden Sunset

One of the best things about living in Longford was that our house had a gorgeous view of the sunsets. :)

Golden Graveyard

Kitsnaps: Golden Graveyard

This is from the same shoot that yesterday’s misnamed Canal Reflection is from. The light was utterly magnificent that morning, and I got a lot of really, really nice shots. This was in January 2006, *just* after we got here, and mere days after I got my (now broken) Nikon D50 DSLR, so I was out taking loads of pictures and getting a handle on the new camera. I believe I was sort of balanced precariously over a wall trying to take this picture, as the wall was exactly the…

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Canal_Reflection_by_mizkit

Kitsnaps: Canal Reflection

Actually, despite the name, this may well be a river reflection. I think this may be the River Barrow in Athy (A-thigh, rather than ATH-ee, which I insisted on reading it as at first), rather than the canal that also runs through Athy. Either way, it’s pretty. :)