Like Club Med, playgrounds are just a long stretch of bars and sand…
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Much of our time was spent running around the playground last weekend. She never tires of climbing, running, and scooping up sand except when she needs a drink.
We spent the whole weekend at the pool chasing Gabi around the playground and watching her do her best backstroke. Made for a busy yet relaxing time.
Taking some time to catch up on my photo backlog; this past week was a grist mill of 14+ hour days though the long weekend preceding it certainly helped. Our Fourth weekend was a bir if a bust with rain keeping us from the pool and much else but Gabi managed to keep herself busy.
I’m finally coming around to the conclusion that while I have a patient model in Gabriella too many of my shots are junk when taking them indoors. What I think I need to step it up is a decent flash with a diffuser and, more importantly, a faster lens. The former is nice in lighting up an area and helping bring attention to the focal point of the picture but the latter means I can leverage the natural light and not blind her as she darts about the house.
In the lens department, I had my heart set on an 85mm f1.8 but in reviewing most of my indoor shots they all seem to cluster around the 50 mm range. That’s good news for my wallet as the price difference between the 50mm and 85mm f1.8 lenses is a solid $250+. That said many of the reviewers on Amazon while liking the 50mm f1.8 overall question its build quality and recommend going up a level to the f1.4. Of course they do. That erases $200 of savings but likely will result in a lens that will last years of chasing my daughter around the house.
Time to fillout a requsition with Management.
Baby slept in late yesterday which afforded me the leisure of taking some photos of her sleeping, or Peri being watchful, and a nice slow walk to work. Outside of that bliss was a fire that was raging at the midpoint of my commute.
In the darkest part of that smoke is a multi-family house.
This is the house where most of the third story was gutted from the blaze. After seeing this I couldn’t wait to get home to my family.
