ellen (probably frozen)

here are some photos i took of ellen right before i left and forgot to upload them in the craze of packing and last minute shenanagins. (london update soon!) i recently sold my 100mm macro lens and bought the 35mm f/2 over the 28mm and i'm really loving it so far. it's a different feel than the 50mm and warrants to less "close up" portrait shots and more incorporation of the environment (so far, in my sense).

i realized i've taken photos with ellen for the last two years, so i thought it would be interesting if we kept doing this. we wandered to the dog park across my neighborhood, as i have been doing for the last six years, but this time we wandered a little bit further and what do you know - we find this absolutely wonderful field with sandy browns and steel blues and simply capture the beauty of winter. since the days of flickr, my only dream was to photograph in a field and i was frustrated that my lame suburb in new jersey lacked this photographic staple. oh wait, just kidding, there has been one there all along. alas, so much teen angst probably could have been avoided.

anyway, thank you ellen for braving the cold for me - you are wonderful and i apologize again for the lack of feeling in your entire body. lately photobucket has been failing quality wise, and also i think me putting ellen in shrubbery is a trend.