My K10D is on it's way!

We're traveling to New Zealand (woo-hoooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!), so my subjects are likely to be landscapes, streets, and portraits.

Now it's time to choose some lenses. In the interests of image quality, I've decided to go with primes (those having fixed focal lengths) instead of zooms. Without a zoom, I'll have to hoof it a little more to compose my shots. But getting up close and personal with the subject is part of the fun provided that the subject isn't one of the brown bears of Katmai National Park where Aimee and I are going in June 2009 (woo-hoooooooooooooooooooo!!!!). Uh yeah, maybe I'll pick up a something with a 300mm focal length before we head there.

While I'd love to own the some or all of the Pentax DA Limited trifecta (21, 40, and 70mm), I'm looking seriously at the now discontinued FA 35mm f2.0. It's reasonably fast, and while it won't open as wide as the 50mm f1.4, it should still generate a shallow enough depth of field for some smooth bokeh. I think it'll be a good multi-purpose lens; the angle-of-view should be wide enough for streets and landscapes but it's long enough for portraiture. It's also fairly compact, perfect for an unassuming rig to carry around in the street.

My other lens will be a wide angle, either the Pentax DA 14mm f2.3, Pentax DA 21mm f3.2, or the Sigma 20mm f1.8. Fiordland, here we come!

United Flight 382 to Dulles is very empty

It's presumptuous to say there's a type of person who does this.

Who left chewing gum in the drinking fountain at the gym? What went through their mind as they left it there, most likely surreptitiously? I wonder if they felt entitled to have someone else clean up their sticky mess.

Horses in Old Town!

There's some sort of theatre performance involving these horses. This might be worth further exploration.

In our garden and around the neighborhood...

Aimee and I spent the night with my family out in the Chicago 'burbs. One of the intentions of the visit was to fulfil a Korean tradition of spending time at the groom's parents' home post-honeymoon.