i had a baby...

her name is lensbaby. she arrived this weekend. 

she's a tiny thing, weighing almost nothing and has a mind of her own.

i love her, but i'm not so sure she loves me. yet.

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the photos above and any other ones in this post 

that have a more than noticeable blurry edge to them, were taken with her.

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oh gosh, i have SO much to learn.

{slight interruption regarding my baby}

remember when i returned the sabrina ward harrison book that i didn't like. well the one thing i did like about it, were the collage pieces inside a vellum envelope, attached to the inside cover.

well, mostly i loved the word collage pieces. 

so without her book,  i made my own.

lots and lots of them.

for some reason, i feel that i want to get close to my subjects while shooting with my baby, but that's not really what she wants to do. so we're working on a compromise. the stairwell is a good example of us playing well together.

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when i shoot with her, i'm on manual. manual forces me to use my eye to focus. 

you see, for 4 years now i have always used auto focus. auto focus is not the same as auto.

so i'm still shooting on aperture, my favorite mode, but manually focusing the lens.

this my friends is not the easiest thing to do.

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this child of mine is talented though. 

with my help, we can focus up or down and left or right.

have you ever ridden a unicycle. while juggling oranges.

that's how hard it is to find the the off center sweet spot my baby has.

did i mention i have lots to learn.

so just like anything else, you practice. and practice some more.

so i will be practicing for hours and hours and days and days until this new child of mine and i

can finish each other's sentences. seriously, that's how close to her i want to be.

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ps....i could care less that brad and angelina are engaged.