Popped out to the local park to play off the two Canon 50mm lenses (f/1.4 and f/1.8) against each other. Just a few shots out of the few dozen I took which I liked the look of. And no, I haven't decided which one is the best lens for me. At least, not yet.

Rather than stay cooped up indoors all day I got up at a fairly sensible time and toddled in to town via a fairly roundabout route to see what I could do with the 50mm f/1.4 lens I'm still borrowing. I've tried to be brutal, but probably still put up too many duff ones. Comments (on each photo's thumbnail page) would be nice, please so I can get a feel for how I should develop. Some shots are cropped, none have been processed in any way otherwise. I've still got to learn how to do that.

A couple of sunset/silhouette pictures apropos of Elaine ringing me and telling me to look out of the window. Which I did. Luckily I had my camera with me. Unfortunately I only had the 50mm lens I keep banging on about so the results are somewhat... odd. Nevertheless I like the dreamy quality (read: blurred, unfocused) to some of the shots. You're perfectly entitled not to if you wish.

My first attempt at anything remotely organised with a camera. My friend Ben plays in a band called Self Inflicted and they were in the process of recording an album and wanted a shot for the insert to the CD case. They'd seen my collection of shots from town a few weeks ago and thought I was good enough to take some pictures for them. We rolled up to an industrial estate one afternoon where one of the band members has a unit (and is building a dune buggy on a VW chassis) and took a rather large amount of shots. These few are the best of the bunch. Given my current level of photographic skill this isn't saying much, but here they are anyway.

Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire. Rather a strange collection of buildings-as-art. Lovely weather though, and fabulous company.