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Green stars

I found a sweet 135/2.8 Vivitar lens at Hampden Junque in Baltimore last weekend. I haven’t taken a lot of photos with it yet, but it looks like it worked fine on these maple leaves.

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Fire alarm box

There are quite a few of these old fire alarm boxes around town. I don’t think any of them do anything anymore, but most that I’ve seen look like they’re painted now and then.

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Posing

Posing at the Tidal Basin with cherry blossoms.
Posing.

With all of the tourists in town for the cherry blossoms, it’s a great time for taking pictures of people taking pictures. In my walk around the Tidal Basin I was asked to take two photos, which seems like a lot for a guy wearing a baseball cap and glasses.

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Pink blossoms

Pink cherry blossoms.
Pink blossoms.

More cherry blossoms! Because, why not?

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Cherry blossoms

Cherry blossoms.
Cherry blossoms.

We have a tall cherry tree in the backyard, so I don’t need to go all the way down to the Tidal Basin to see blossoms. They’re a bit far up there though, so it’s a good opportunity to use one of my longer lenses. For this I used my favorite, a 135/3.5 Super Takumar, with an extension tube for closer focusing.