Happy September

It's the first day of September and there is no school or work due to Labor Day which means lots of procrastination especially when it comes to my homework. I've been playing around with my camera and my 50mm lens which doesn't have auto focus. My tired eyes trying to focus in the little view finder doesn't work well often. It's really too bad because I love that 50mm lens. It takes good, crisp pictures if the focus is right. It also has a maximum aperature of 1.8 for those of you who know camera talk. For those that don't, it means that the background can get really blurry or that I can take better natural light pictures when there isn't much light. The thing is with my f-stop at 1.8 or even 2.5 I have a very hard time focusing because the focus area is very small. I wish I could use the lens to the extent I want but that means eventually getting a more expensive camera that is auto-focus compatible with that lens. Until then I have to keep practicing.

These are a few pictures I took with my 50mm lens yesterday. Just for fun. Go ahead, click the picture. See it big! And see that I got the eyes (or eye) in focus. That's what I was trying to do. It doesn't happen quickly but it happened. Yay.



This picture is not of my children, it's a picture of the zombie shells of my children. Thanks to Grandpa we have a new Wii and we all have been having a great time playing it, especially the kids. Uncle Barry was at our house a couple times this weekend and he brought some Wii games with him. In the picture the kids are playing Mario Kart with the Wii steering wheels. I really don't know how I'm going to stay on top of the housework or my homework with so much Wii fun.