Photography

Sandy Bottom Nature Park and New Lens

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So for Christmas I received a Nikkor AF-S 50mm f/1.8G lens and I was (and still am) so very excited for the amazing bokeh and portrait photography that I will be able to take with this amazing prime lens. As a beginner, I have to play around and do my research a lot more to fully utilize the potential of this lens, but discovery is always the best part! I didn’t particularly like any of these photographs too much, but I had literally just opened the lens and they told me the park was closing in 5 minutes…so this is what I did in 5 minutes haha. Not the greatest, but I can already tell how amazing this lens is and once again I am so excited to keep playing around with it!

 P.S. Did you catch how amazing I think this lens is? Enjoy!

P.P.S. That water was rock solid, and I was so tempted to run across it…but I’m not that crazy.

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D.C. Weekend and Random Photographs

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I was in Washington D.C. for the weekend to celebrate one of my best friends’ 23rd birthday, and today we shopped and explored the Georgetown area. As many times as I have visited D.C. I had never been to that particular area, so of course I enjoyed seeing some place new. It was a rather dreary day, however, and because I did not want to get my camera wet from the drizzle and rain I unfortunately did not take any pictures of the outdoors, but I took a couple of cool photographs from inside a few stores. 

Really random photography, just some stuff I thought was cool. 

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It’s technically Monday, but I’m going to call this my extra late Sunday post 🙂 Hope everyone had a good Sunday!

Merry Christmas Eve…Eve with Beginner Photography!

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My mom always goes over the top with gorgeous Christmas decorations and she finally showed them off yesterday with her “Christmas Open House.” I decided to attempt Bokeh photography on my 18-55mm kit lens on my Nikon D5100. So here are my favorite photographs (and decorations) from yesterday! Feel free to comment and leave feedback, enjoy!

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Cambridge!

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I made it to Cambridge, UK and settled in quite nicely. I haven’t yet taken my camera around this beautiful town, but I will be sure to do that very very soon. In the mean time, I took a few pictures on my phone of just SOME  of the beautiful buildings here. I am in love with the architecture and history of this town, everything is so beautiful and grand and quaint and a thousand other adjectives I’m sure I could think of to describe this place. I am so excited to see more! Oh, and I finally purchased a Cambridge satchel bag I’ve been wanting from the store itself :). Enjoy these camera phone quality pictures in the mean time and I’ll be sure to make up for it later 😀

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