{"id":153,"date":"2008-01-09T07:28:28","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T12:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2008-03-16T14:39:06","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T19:39:06","slug":"only-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Only in…"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI’ve been using the wide-angle lens.
\nBack in my university days, I used a wide-angle lens almost
\nexclusively, so I thought I would have no trouble with this lens.
\nI was wrong. It is more difficult to get visually interesting
\nphotos with a wide-angle than a telephoto. A wide-angle will
\nphotograph much more area, and more of it will be in focus,
\nso you often end up with cluttered pictures with no focal point.
\nBut I’m learning. And it’s a fun<\/em> lens.
\n08 January 2008<\/p>\n

We got back into Austin Sunday night, but I have been go go go since we arrived home.\u00c2\u00a0 Even now I don’t have much time for an update, so I thought I would tell a couple of anecdotes that highlight the quirks of different places.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, in shorthand, “Only in…”<\/p>\n

“Only in England…”<\/em><\/p>\n

Matt’s great-aunt who is also one of Lily’s namesakes, Auntie Vera, is in the hospital at the moment and we went to visit her several times while in England.\u00c2\u00a0 She shares a room with three other female patients, and above each patient’s bed is a small whiteboard with medical information.\u00c2\u00a0 Also on each whiteboard, alongside all the medical information,\u00c2\u00a0is how the patient takes her tea. :)\u00c2\u00a0 Auntie Vera’s had written, “Vera takes a very small amount of milk in her tea.”<\/p>\n

“Only in Austin…”<\/em><\/p>\n

We had two legs to our journey: London Gatwick to Atlanta and then Atlanta to Austin.\u00c2\u00a0 By the time we boarded the plane to Austin, we were all dead tired, including the children.\u00c2\u00a0 Damian was very fussy, so I started nursing him on the plane and he fell straight asleep.\u00c2\u00a0 As I was nursing him, I thought to myself, “That’s how you know that you’re on a plane to Austin: you see a 40-year-old woman breast-feeding her baby.” \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

It’s good to be home.\u00c2\u00a0 Like my mom always says, “I love going to see my family and friends, and then I love coming home.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been using the wide-angle lens. Back in my university days, I used a wide-angle lens almost exclusively, so I thought I would have no trouble with this lens. I was wrong. It is more difficult to get visually interesting photos with a wide-angle than a telephoto. A wide-angle will photograph much more area, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austin","category-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}