August 6, 2010: My zoom lens needs to be cleaned. It's two and a half years old and has developed an unfocused smear around the edges, a sweet kind of motion blur even when I'm standing still. Sometimes it makes me crazy, because all I want is a sharp, clear, sunlit shot; but then, sometimes, I don't take it to the camera store to have it cleaned because I like the effect, not quite a fisheye, not quite a regular lens, something unpredictable and unique.
By next baseball season I'll have replaced it with a bigger, heavier lens, one that auto-focuses and has a longer zoom range. It'll be better. But I'll miss that sweet tilt, just a little bit, because it never looked like anyone else's photos.
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