{"id":70,"date":"2007-07-06T07:43:43","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T15:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/2007\/07\/06\/window-to-the-past\/"},"modified":"2007-07-06T07:43:43","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T15:43:43","slug":"window-to-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/2007\/07\/06\/window-to-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Window to the past"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Window<\/a>
\nI went downtown last week to check out telephoto zoom lenses at the local camera shop and took this shot on my way back to the car. It’s a wall that divides an empty lot. Many decades ago a building stood on the lot, thus the windows, but it burned down probably before I was born. To my knowledge the wall has not been earthquake retrofitted and has lasted through a few large to moderate earthquakes. It is connected on both ends to buildings so isn’t just free-standing. I’ve always thought it was a cool, old architectural artifact from a by gone era. I’m kinda surprised no one has built anything on the lot, it’s in a prime location downtown. Businesses use it for reserved parking, but that’s
\n ok. I hope it remains a empty lot with the lone wall for a long time. Hosted on Zooomr with a geotag<\/a> so you can see the location.<\/p>\n

About the lens, I pretty much decided on the Canon EF 70-300mm f\/4-5.6 IS USM Autofocus Telephoto Zoom Lens<\/a>. I looked at a cheap Tamron lens, but was not impressed the few photos I shot in the store. This Canon lens costs quite a bit more than the Tamron, but has Image Stabilization. I do like to shoot in low light, especially late in the day, so I figured I would use that feature. It’s not a professional grade lens like the L-Series, but it is in my budget and has gotten a lot of good reviews<\/a>. Since I’m just a hobbyist and mostly take family photos, I figured this lens would work well. My daughters like to perform in school plays (which have marginal lighting) so the image stabilization should come in handy. One daughter is on a swim team, so I should be able to get some good shots of her at the meets. The best price I found was Adorama<\/a>, if you recommend an different site please let me know.<\/p>\n

While I’m on the subject of lenses, Raoul Pop has a great review of the Canon EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS USM<\/a> Zoom lens. It’s a little out of my price range (right now), but maybe someday I’ll get an L-Series lens. When I get my lens, I’ll post a review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went downtown last week to check out telephoto zoom lenses at the local camera shop and took this shot on my way back to the car. It’s a wall that divides an empty lot. Many decades ago a building stood on the lot, thus the windows, but it burned down probably before I was … Continue reading “Window to the past”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/threesisters.net\/photo_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}