Last week we welcomed a new gadget into the family: a beautiful Canon L 70-200mm zoom lens. It is now attached to David's camera mostly full-time; with me using the wide-angle lens, we make a good team.
The zoom arrived mid-week last week, so at first it could only be tested on things around the farm where we live. But David had a great time bothering the chickens and hunting other creatures from the bushes.
One of the coolest things about this new lens is that it has image stabilization, which means you don't need a tripod to photograph things in low light, or the moon! After a few exposure adjustments, David took the above photo by just walking outside and pointing the camera at the sky. Seriously cool.
On Saturday we took the new lens to another local parish church to really put it to the test. This church is in Thame, which is 7 miles northeast of us. It was quite a large and nice church and full of zooming opportunities. The visit was made even more pleasant by friendly ladies bustling around decorating it with harvest-related items.
Thame was a nice market town and had a lot of old half-timbered houses too:
Another church (Kingsey, in Buckinghamshire) presented itself along the road while the sun was still shining, so we stopped briefly for a photo:
