lake this and lake that and lake your mom in the lake

YESTERDAYYYYyyyYyyyyyyyyyyYyyyyyYYYyyYyYyYYYYyyyyyyyy. oh, sorry. yester-yesterday, went to burnaby lake with my dad. er, sorry, deer lake. and of course, i took the fa43 (as well as the da15) along. before i went there though, it appeared to be sunny, and so i decided to fuck with the fa43 by shoving some sun down its throat

it took it all the way in and swallowed without flinching, really. it doesn't seem to know what flare is, which is pretty awesome - it's like my da15 in that it doesn't seem to know how to flare. pretty awesome shit. also, love how it renders blues and shite

i really really like that it has 8 aperture blades instead of 9 - this makes for 8 "spokes" instead of 18 (odd numbered aperture blades make for double the # spokes), which looks a lot more natural. 6 is too few imo.

anyways yeah, at burnaby lake it was pretty awesome, and even though i missed focus and screwed up a few times cause i just snapped and walked on, end results were great (though i can't blame any lens for not knowing what the clusterfuck to focus on amidst the million brambles.

in more exciting news, i've almost achieved happiness in editing. i mainly know how to depressing or nostalgic, perhaps mysterious in post. this shot is soooo closeeee to being happy. so let's just call it happy.

of all the types of flares i think this is the coolest and most potentially useful/least destructive, if i can harness this well, it'd be awesome to use in say portraits or something.

this shot is retardly sharp. there's so much detail in the wall and shit it's ridiculous

also, we saw bald eagles. 3 in total. i'm a bit perturbed by how common they seem to be to me, they're bloody everywhere.

i really really really really like this shot. first of all, i don't know what the fuck the person who said the fa43's soft wide open was on, this thing is plenty sharp on that blue swing and a bit going into the black one (i missed  a bit but got it close enough). second of all, i just love this - it just popsssssss. i think that the "busy" bokeh attributed to the fa43 is kind of busy in that it's realistic - it resembles the background blur innate to the eye, imo, which is why it doesn't look like just...shitty bokeh, but natural. no more distracting in photos than the background is in person. 

i'm not quite sure how the people got this to stick into the rail but okay.

2 shot pano with the fa43. omg this thing is epic at full size, the sharpness, the 3Dishness, it's just awesome. i want to print this wall-sized and fa-- let's not say shit on the internet i'll regret :)

at this point i'm at burnaby mountain, in an attempt to get pictures of the supermoon. well, i got pictures, but i was a bit disappointed. the moon clearly overstated the size of its junk last night; it wasn't anything special imo compared to any other full moon. however, i did get my cherry popped that night; i did my very first nighttime long exposure/star streaks thing, at about  20 minutes long. streaks aren't as long as i'd like and it's overall too  bright (it wasn't totally black yet) but i think it still ended up pretty awesome...

the fireball of death would be Vancouver.

also, i think i kinda failt at the single in march in that by using my fa43 predominantly these past few days, the purpose was a bit defeated. though technically the rules of the challenge are a photo a day with that lens, not necessarily to abstain from other lenses, so there's that. at the same time, when i have the fa43 on the camera, grabbing the tak is such a chore....here was my single-in-march photo for the day though.

and yesterday's:

/awesomeendingtopost.