So, I posted recently about a telephoto lens that I had received from my friend Jordan. In this post, I mentioned that I had not been having any trouble with the lens after cleaning the contacts. Unfortunately when I went to D.C. the next day to shoot, I pulled out that lens and it failed on me again. Nothing I did made it work. I called up Jordan, and he said that he has an older camera that this lens works fine with, so he’ll be taking it back…

All is not lost in the land of lenses, however. For Christmas my family gave me a Canon f/1.8 lens for the Rebel. It takes some really beautiful photographs. It’s a really clear prime lens, and when I shoot at 1.8, it looks like a movie. The subject is in focus, and the background is very blurry. It makes for a really cool effect.

Here’s a picture of a stop sign I took with this new lens: