31/52

Yes I did miss out 2 weeks of project 52 and I got way beyond even trying to catch up. Not only did I leave my portrait lens in the hotel when I was away with my mum, as I feared, but my kit lens has so much dust in it, it’s unusable. Everything I’ve read online says this is impossible and even a huge amount of dust makes no different to photos (complete with a demonstration of huge bits of paper stuck over the lens!) but it really does! Photos either look really dirty or like they have giant spiders crawling all over them, depending on the aperture setting

So I’m stuck with phone pics and my point and shoot for now. As if that wasn’t enough, my hard drive died and my computer is in for repair so i’m on my old laptop running linux with no battery. Sigh. At least the rice fields are pretty at the moment!

I really have little chance of getting my lens back now so I’m planning on buying a new one. I LOVED my 50mm f/1.8 but I did find it a little boxed in at times so i was thinking about replacing it with something a little more versatile. If any of you talented camera people could weigh in with (canon compatible) lens recommendations, I’d really appreciate it!

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