Guess I should...

Guess I should show what my new lens looks like. :) It's much smaller than the kit lens that came with my camera. But this bad boy is "fast", which essentially means that you can take much better pictures in low light conditions! That comes in real handy when your photographing in the house with just the lighting of lamps and overhead lights. This is a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8d lens, it's a prime lens which means it has a fixed focal length of 50mm. Basically no zoom, you zoom by moving your feet! :) The only downside to this lens is it doesn't autofocus on my camera - Nikon D40. No big deal just have to do it manually, and shoot off several pics at the same time to make sure I'm in focus :) Love digital, not wasting "film" by rapid firing shots. :) All for now, I'm sure I'll have more pictures to share later! FLIP!

I'm a crawling, can't ya see...

It's so amazing to see Landyn, moving around the way he does. He still is doing the backwards crawl but he's moving around really good. He likes to turn circles when he plays in the floor. Usually this is because I've surrounded him with toys and he just wants to play with everything he can.

The first set of pictures I have to share are from last week. He was playing in the floor and I got down on my belly and snapped off a few shots of him crawling backwards :)

The second set are of Landyn and Tammy from tonight. She had him in the floor playing so I took a few from behind then got in the floor in front of them and took pictures of him playing with her empty cup! That boy is such a mess! So on to the links...

Clicky here - Pictures of Landyn playing/crawling in the floor last week.

Clicky here - Landyn and Tammy in the floor playing.

I do believe that's all for now. I was telling Tammy tonight that I'd love to get a lens for my camera that I've been eye-balling lately. It's really good for low light or indoor shots and it's what's called "fast" glass and you rarely need to use a flash for it. It's a Nikkor 50mm f1.8d, this is a fixed focal length lens which means there is no zoom. Plus on my camera it would be 100% manual focus because it doesn't have a motor in the lens to autofocus. That's no big deal, it just makes you slow down and take extra special care and time to adjust the focus and all your other settings before snapping off pics. The best thing about this lens, besides that it is probably one of the best Nikkor lenses, is it's only around $100. Can't beat that with a stick! While I'm mentioning photography and stuff, I've started listening to a new podcast that's dedicated to photography. It's a spinoff from one of Leo Laporte's shows, a few of his pundits/hosts have started it and so far it's been really good. I think they are only up to about the 5th or 6th episode but they have shared some really good information and discussed good topics. The name of the show is TwiP or This week in Photograpy. All for now for sure this time :P FLIP!