It’s beginning to look like my days at home are numbered and soon enough I’ll be back on the road, in the air, and all over the place. Time to start warming up those shutters.

I’ve been walking the nearby golf course around sunrise lately and decided that it’s time I start bringing the camera along. I’m going to limit myself to a small amount of gear each time to force myself to use some things that don’t get used that often. Today it was the Nikon D300 with my Lensbaby Composer mounted. I pulled the aperture ring out so that it was wide open and would give me the most distortion. Too much? That’s what I wanted to find out. I haven’t used this lens enough to have favorite apertures so I’ll take advantage of these walks to figure some of this stuff out.

There was a lot of distortion — too much in some cases — but that’s why you use a Lensbaby, right? If it didn’t have that look, you’d use another lens. But for distant shots, it seemed about right. Maybe next time I’ll pop in the next stop down and see how much of a difference it makes.