New Lens, Vacation and Verses.

Christy BW 2, originally uploaded by Jeff McMorrough.

I broke down and bought a new 50mm lens, the 1.4 USM, to replace my nifty fifty 1.8. I felt the autofocus going in the cheaper lens and it started to lock up during a shoot.

I shot some stuff backstage before The Little Foxes closed. This pic of Christy is one. I’m not certain if the 1.4 has better IQ or if I just want it to, but I think it’s a good investment. Also, this pic uses my favorite lightroom preset I made for black and whites.

I’ll be heading to Arkansas on Friday the 11th for a little over a week and I’m looking forward to shooting some nature.

I need a break from work. Things have been tough lately. It gets really old being consistently told that what you do isn’t working or good enough. I’ve been praying about a lot of stuff lately and God has given me two specific passages:

1 Peter 5:10

And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.

Lamentations 3:19-27

I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.

I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.

Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:

Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.

They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”

The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;

it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.