Project 365 - Day 3 - Happy (early) birthday to me!

My favourite lens these days is my 60mm Macro.  It's a Nikon and has an f stop of 2.8.  It's a very nice piece of glass.  All of the pics posted thus far this year have been from that lens.  But no more.

For a very long time I have coveted the Nikon 24-70 Lens.  I love the images it produces, the sharpness is incredible.  When I went to Banff in Feb of 2012, I rented this lens from Vistek.  Well worth the money.  I have been watching the sales, and I noticed that it went on sale at Henry's earlier this week.  On a whim, I checked Vistek, and they were almost $100 cheaper.  The Vistek price was the lowest I had seen since I started wishing for this lens.  So I pulled the trigger after agonizing over it for a number of days, and basically driving Sonia nuts by almost constantly talking abou it.  But I must say, all the pro/con lists (only con was the price), all the back and forth, checking the web site daily - it was worth it. 

I now own the Nikon 24-70 f2.8 lens.  Yay me!  :-)  And thank you Sonia in advance for my brithday presents for the next 10 years or so ... :-)

But you might guess that I will post a picture with that lens today?  Well, you are partially right ...

 

But I must say, it's really a sobering thought when you consider that I have now blown my entire 2013 photography budget on a single purchase, and only 3 days into the year.  Oh well, lots of time to figure out what to do with next year's allotment!