When I was traveling with a photography group last fall, a friend of mine let me borrow a lens – it was a very nice lens and I could tell why he was making it real clear that he’d loaned it to me. It was a 56mm, f1.2, and: wow!

And then, of course you know what happened: I had to get one for my very own. And I used it all day on my visit to the botanical garden; as it turns out, shooting short depth of field added some interest to these images that other lenses wouldn’t have gotten.

Springs Preserve
Las Vegas, Nevada
photographed 2.15.2024