It’s another full moon, which sets just before the sun rises. I looked at it with the telescope last night. This morning, I managed to bracket manual focus with the 500mm and get the setting moon mostly in focus.

You can sort of see how weird the bokeh is on this lens, by the craptacular blur on the foreground tree branches.

Skippy brought home some tulips the other day, and they’re starting to open up. The sun, filtering through our foggy window, provided some nice highlighting, so I broke out the macro lens and got up close and personal with them.

For closeup shots like these, I like a wide open aperture, so the depth of field is shallow. That lets me select specific areas of the image to highlight by putting them in focus, while the rest of the subject is blurred.

Tonight, we’re going to see the local production of “The Nutcracker.” It’s apparently 2.5 hours long, so…yeah. That’s a lot of sitting.