Wide-Angle Wednesday? Why not!

Hello!

It's been awhile, again. The last month was a little rough, but things are starting to get a little better. My work has been getting progressively more stressful. I was able to get a new wide-angle lens that works with my camera, though! The previos one was not compatible with the new mount.

This is a photo of a skylight at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. The downtown network extends to the "Subway" level and this round, domed window allows a little natural light filter down to that area. It's an interesting geeling, looking through the window and down at the people below.

As part of the "Destination Medical Center" renovations to town, Rochester is adding pedestrian streets, redoing others to be more attractive, and adding some interesting things like trees and lights. Second street, here, appears to be turning into one of the pedestrian malls.

It was an overcast day, so these looked better in high-contrast black and white.

Now, back to Mankato, MN, and the land of color!

One of the nice things about ultra-wide lenses is that you can really distort perspective. This stone marker looks huge! It's really only about two feet tall. I had to stoop over to reed it.

Distortion can make ultra-wide lenses difficult to use. You really have to focus on getting lines straight, especially indoors. Even corrected, the building on the left looks like it's about to collapse into the street. The benefit is that I was able to get the church on the opposite corner of the street, even though its steeple is roughly five stories up.

The new lens is a 15-35mm zoom lens and this was taken at the 35mm end. The range makes it great for walking around town with. This particular photo doesn't show its potential, but hey. Who doesn't like seeing town through a beer?

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