new lens eye candy

Monday, May 18th, 2009 | knitting, photography, socks

I’m completely enamoured of my new lens. To celebrate, some random photos! Mostly flowers, because, well, they make awesome subjects. I really need to practice with some yarn though!

Some new plain ribbed socks out of Regia Cotton on the go:

And my favourite of the day, a dandelion – the prettiest annoying weed there is.

P.S. In case you missed it in the last post, the lens I got is a Sigma 17-70mm f2.8-4.5!

20 Comments to new lens eye candy

1 jackie
May 19, 2009

I must get one. Good shots. very nice pics.

2 Maryse
May 19, 2009

Nice photos! Incredibly pretty flowers! What a gift from nature!

3 Estella
May 19, 2009

Love your flower pictures. I read a fact yesterday that a dandelion has over 100 seeds in each of those lovely puffballs! That’s a lot of dandelions!

4 Georganna
May 19, 2009

Oooo – gorgeous photos! Note to self. . . get a macro lens. . . someday?

5 red
May 19, 2009

Gorgeous pictures. Also, now inspired to make a giant granny square afghan. Talk about an easy stashbusting, TV watching/book reading project.

But my question is: what’s the plant with pink flowers and red leaves. That’s just gorgeous.

6 Elizabeth
May 19, 2009

Stunning! Simply Stunning!

7 albi
May 19, 2009

Very nice pics.
Love your flower pictures.

8 Debbie
May 19, 2009

I don’t think you could have gotten a better lens. What kind of camera do you have? I want one of those lenses for my Canon.

9 --Deb
May 19, 2009

Beautiful shots! I so want a macro lens for my camera… (grin)

10 darlene
May 19, 2009

absolutely lovely shots!

11 Seanna Lea
May 20, 2009

Amazing photos. It’s probably wrong of me, but as soon as you mentioned the need to practice on some yarn I was, “yeah, and excuse to buy more yarn!”

Umm, yes, yarn shopping is habit forming.

12 Meredith
May 20, 2009

Very nice! I’m in the market for a new lens for my Nikon as well. Great shots!

13 Kris
May 21, 2009

Simply stunning photos!

14 karen
May 22, 2009

your pictures are fantastic.

I just broke my 50mm1:1.8, I miss it terribly.

15 Kala
May 22, 2009

Even though I’m horribly allergic to dandelion fluff, that picture is gorgeous!

16 Meredith
May 24, 2009

I love the forget- me- not shot.
They are the most romantic flower….

17 Karen Lauterwasser
May 27, 2009

That is one magic lens – not to mention the talented eyes behind it. I look forward to lots of awesome yarn photos in the future – although I would not say no to more flowers either. Looking at the flowers, I feel like I am there.

Oh, and the new cardigan looks pretty awesome as well. I need to make myself a sweater soon – this one will go on my list!