Wide angle fun, day 1: Inside my house

For the next two weeks, I’m renting a Canon 10-22mm wide angle lens from LensRentals.com. I’m doing this for a couple of reasons. First, a friend of mine told me that I need to quit focusing in on details of stuff and try zooming out and looking at the big picture for a change. I retorted that I don’t have a decent wide-angle lens, so that’s why I always go for the details… but he’s right–I was starting to get stuck in a rut there, more or less.  Reason #2 is a photo outing that will make itself known after this weekend, but I’ll wait until I have pictures to post before I explain further. :-)

Anyway, so I spent today at work obsessively clicking F5 on the FedEx tracking page, and then I got home to find the lovely lens waiting for me. I immediately popped it on my camera and looked around for a subject. Ok, so my house isn’t all that clean, but these are the best pictures I’ve manged to get thus far (given that my place is tiny and normally everything gets cut off.)

My living room. Ignore the clutter--it's laundry day, and I need to put stuff away.

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My kitchen, with a quite lovely chicken-and-dumplings soup stewing in the crock pot.

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My bedroom--somewhat messy, but cozy nonetheless.

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My favorite place to hang out.

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Last but not least, I tried to get one of those pictures where the animal’s nose looks huge because it’s up close to the lens, but Stein would have none of it, and this is as close as I managed to get. Dumb cat.

Stein the cat.

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