{"id":6958,"date":"2015-05-11T15:08:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T20:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=6958"},"modified":"2015-05-25T11:01:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T16:01:01","slug":"photo-weekend-w-new-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=6958","title":{"rendered":"Photo Weekend w\/ New Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/16872909914\" title=\"Lilacs by Nicole, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8761\/16872909914_58d65501f8.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Lilacs\" class=\"entry\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/17307841440\" title=\"Tulips by Nicole, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8855\/17307841440_f41aa3078c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Tulips\" class=\"entry\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It was a rather wet weekend here, but Saturday morning it was just overcast so we headed to Lilacia Park to see the tulips and lilacs. It was actually a more comfortable visit than last year because it was only in the 60&#8217;s. On top of that, the previous day&#8217;s storms left pretty water drops all over the tulips and the lack of harsh sunlight made the photos more evenly lit.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/16875141483\" title=\"Tulip by Nicole, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8865\/16875141483_a3f23ccbd7.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Tulip\" class=\"entry\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Afterward we visited Cosley Zoo so I could test out my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Canon-EF-S-55-250mm-F4-5-6-Cameras\/dp\/B00EFILVQU\" target=\"_blank\">Canon EF-S 55-250mm F4-5.6 IS STM lens<\/a> I had ordered earlier in the week. I really wanted the 70-300mm lens but the price has been holding steady at $650 for nearly a year now, so I decided to compromise with 50mm less range for half the price. The lens I got sells for $300 pretty much everywhere, but I ordered it from Buydig.com because they threw in some accessories, including a protective filter for the lens, for free.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/16872507104\" title=\"Raccoon by Nicole, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/6\/5341\/16872507104_c72f3831e3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Raccoon\" class=\"entry\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I like the reach this lens affords me now. The bobcats are always in the back of their enclosure so I could never get a decent shot of them until buying this lens.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/17492927592\" title=\"Bobcat by Nicole, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8794\/17492927592_cf5c39ce8c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Bobcat\" class=\"entry\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>On top of that, the auto-focus on the lens is very quick and the image stabilization works even better than I was anticipating. All my shots came out very sharp even with the added zoom. I&#8217;m very excited to use it at other zoos!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a rather wet weekend here, but Saturday morning it was just overcast so we headed to Lilacia Park to see the tulips and lilacs. It was actually a more comfortable visit than last year because it was only in the 60&#8217;s. On top of that, the previous day&#8217;s storms left pretty water drops all over the tulips and the lack of harsh sunlight made the photos more evenly lit. Afterward we visited Cosley Zoo so I could test out my new Canon EF-S 55-250mm F4-5.6 IS STM lens I had ordered earlier in the week. I really wanted the 70-300mm lens but the price has been holding steady at $650 for nearly a year now, so I decided to compromise with 50mm less range for half the price. The lens I got sells for $300 pretty much everywhere, but I ordered it from Buydig.com because they threw in <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=6958\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-excursions","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6958"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6974,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6958\/revisions\/6974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}