the new lens!

I did end up getting my new lens yesterday (a 35mm/1.8 for anyone who cares), and Evelyn and I have been having some fun with it. This might be my favorite picture I've ever taken. I wanna blow it up huge and put it in a white frame in the living room or something.

Visit my photo blog to see the rest of the photos from our little session.

Also, I read a lot of Frank O'Hara today, who is absolutely incredible. All the colors and the splashing in these photos remind me of him. Here's his poem, "My Heart:"

I'm not going to cry all the time
nor shall I laugh all the time,
I don't prefer one "strain" to another.
I'd have the immediacy of a bad movie,
not just a sleeper, but also the big,
overproduced first-run kind. I want to be
at least as alive as the vulgar. And if
some aficionado of my mess says "That's
not like Frank!", all to the good! I
don't wear brown and grey suits all the time,
do I? No. I wear workshirts to the opera,
often. I want my feet to be bare,
I want my face to be shaven, and my heart-
-you can't plan on the heart, but
the better part of it, my poetry, is open.