Movie Review: Law Abiding Citizen

This movie was amazing.....and how could it not be with Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler? Butler plays a man who is out for blood after the brutal murder of his wife and daughter. Foxx plays Assistant DA. They both do an excellent job in this cat-and-mouse movie. I highly recommend it!

George Has a New Friend

So I made a simple, $100 purchase for my camera. A new lens. A portrait lens, to be exact. Back when I first got my camera, I decided that I was going Canon all the way. I wouldn't buy any other lens than Canon - no generic brands for this girl. However, lenses are not cheap. By any stretch of the imagination. But this lens? It really was only $100. And it's the shortest and lightest lens Canon offers. The strongest quality happens to be its sharpness....which is key for portrait photography. It also produced the harshest blur.

This was taken with my Canon 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 (we'll call this the bigger lens from here on out). See how you can still make out quite a bit of detail of the background carpet?

This was taken with the new, smaller lens (Canon 50mm f1:8). It focuses on the subject and nothing else. See how ALL the carpet is blurred?

Bigger lens.

Smaller lens.

Bigger lens.


Smaller lens.

See, sometimes better things come in smaller packages.

There is no zoom - you either move in or out, physically. And I kind of like this - I think I will learn to REALLY like this with my photoshoots. I really dislike relying on zooming. I think it adds noise to the picture, and I try as often as I can to get as close as I can to achieve my shots. I think this lens will make me a very happy photographer. I have a photoshoot this weekend, so I will report back on how the new lens performs out in the real world.

Back to Regularly Scheduled Programming

Ok, so I took a little break from blogging to deal with life. Home life and work life have been beyond chaotic lately, but I feel as though both are back under control now. So George (my camera) has been taken out of his bag and will once again be capturing the moments in our life.

We had quite a busy weekend, and I was really only able to capture some of today. Eric and I had date night last night - we went to see Sherlock Holmes. I wasn't sure what to think of this movie since I'm not a Robert Downey, Jr. fan at all....nor Jude Law for that matter. However, I do have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, and Downey, Jr. and Law act opposite each other extremely well. I really do hope there is a sequel to the movie....they certainly set it up for one.

Today was a busy day of getting caught up around the house. Carter and I took a little shopping trip, and he picked out a bat and ball. Naturally, I couldn't turn it down...especially with opening day a little over a month away. This baseball-lovin' heart is longing for some action.

So we worked on batting lefty (for my dad).

And righty, of course. Because he can never be TOO talented!

And then we went over to the cemetery to feed the ducks and geese. They were super hungry today....walking right up to Carter and biting for the bread. He wasn't very happy about that, and mostly kept his distance.

And I finally printed my bridge pictures that I've been wanting to frame for such a long time. I opted to go big, taking a gamble on the resolution warning the computer gave me. And the gamble paid off. It looks fantastic!!

Happy Weekend!

Carter and I wish you all a happy weekend! It's a grainy phone pic, but he's still my love!

Swingset

I was waiting to do this post until I could load these pictures into Photoshop, but I'm tired of waiting. So here they are, with super basic editing.......one of our friends donated a swingset and sandbox to Carter. I'm sure Carter will be spending many summer nights playing with both.





(Alternate titles to this post include: The Day Before It Went To Shit)

That is all.