adventures // mt. rose snow

I just recently bought myself the canon 50mm 1/.4 lens and... I think my life can never be the same. I'll never use my 1.8 again. I don't even want to use the kit lens ever again. It is so clean and crisp. I felt like a little kid when I clicked the 'confirm purchase' button on ebay. Last year I used my whole tax return for school, this year I decided to treat myself. I also got a new battery and car charger for it which I'm super excited about. For maybe... a year (eek) the battery has been completely drained so on a 'full charge' it works for an hour max. You can imagine how annoying that is. It made me bummed and not want to take pictures at all. For some reason I thought that batteries were super expensive but I found my new kit for under $20.

I dragged (not really) Rick out to the snow with me so I could try it out, and it did not disappoint. I've taken some pictures of the puppies with it but haven't ventured outdoors. I wanted to take some smoking-a-wood-pipe-in-the-woods photos but we ended up snapping only a couple of shots because it was freezing, and we hadn't intended on traveling into Tahoe. I was in a light sweater and he had boat shoes on. I was imagining myself hiking and doing a lot more... rigorous activity, but with Monday being a holiday, everybody and their Uncle Bob was out in the snow. I don't like being around crowds of people and they love to gawk at you when you take pictures like you're some kind of sideshow freak, so we kept driving around to the south side of Tahoe.













That last one is super grainy, but I just love him.

xo