Exploring the wonders of creation through a 50mm lens...and other lenses too.

Another photo opportunity that popped up while I was out walking in our neighborhood with my son. This was outside a house that is for sale, and has been for quite some time.  The framing of this sign was a bit tricky because I had to step around some inconveniently-placed bushes, and also keep an eye on my son who was playing behind me. One of the neat things about being constrained to a 50mm lens is that it forces me to find different vantage points from which to shoot, and I don’t think I would have ended up with quite this same perspective if I were using a zooming lens.

I spotted this address label while going on a walk with my son, and while it’s certainly nothing special I did like the rich red color, accented by what was probably a green address label that had been painted over.

 

It’s sort of a ritual on the Oklahoma State University campus that anyone with a camera will inevitably take a picture of this architectural anchor (which, I am told, is modeled after a structure on the campus of the College of William and Mary, though that could be an urban myth).  Getting this shot with my 50mm lens required me to stand way, way back and I had to wait until all the foot traffic had passed.

 

My wife and I were in the living room the other night when she pointed to this green insect crawling up the side of our barbecue grill cover. Neither of us could identify it–was it a spider? A stick insect? I grabbed my camera, went out to investigate, and saw that it was (or at least appeared to be) a very young grasshopper. As I snapped his picture he was probably looking back at me and wondering what this giant monster with a black clicking box was doing :)

Each year my family visits Lake Milford in Kansas, and we spend a few days playing on the beach, riding jet-skis, sitting around the campfire, and just catching up while all our kids play together.  The view from a knoll overlooking the beach is quite nice, and my 50mm lens did a decent job of capturing the scene.