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New lens number 2. The ultrawide fisheye was intriguing, but I remembered the one lens I sold a billion years ago (well, maybe 2010 or so, may as well be a billion years ago) was a Nikon "holy trinity" lens; a 14-24mm zoom. It was an obnoxiously heavy and large lens, but the rectilinear 14mm photographs it took were lovely thing. But it weighed a kilogram. 

TTArtisan makes a brilliant 14mm f/2.8 lens. All metal. Nice smooth action. Very well made. And about an eighth the price of a Nikkor 14-24mm. Half the weight too. 

Bathrooms are incredibly intimate spaces. Here's all 14mm of mine.

 

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26-5-19

 Two new lenses in my life. TTArtisan lenses. Cheap, relatively, in the world of modern day camera equipment. One is an 11mm f/2.8 fisheye. I took yesterday's photo with this lens as well but put it through lens correction filters 3 times to get it rectilinear, because fisheye lenses are a bit of a novelty at the best of times. 

Including today. 

But we take ourselves too seriously. 

A fisheye lens is a fun thing. It's been a long time since I've had one, and I don't think I'll use it a lot, but I'm glad I have it. 

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 These aren't my shoes. 

Somewhere along the line I stopped throwing out my shoes when they wore out. Everywhere you go, your shoes, boots, sandals, whatever, there they are. I can look at the small box of worn out boots and know that everywhere I've been, something in that box has been there with me. 

I don't know whose shoes these are. I don't know where they've been. I'm sure there are stories there. 

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 Happyness. It does come in a can.

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 Liminal spaces. 

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