Tonight around 9pm my friend Mike surprised me with a knock at the door.  He greeted me with, “c’mon get your stuff…let’s go shooting!”…so I packed up my camera gear, and in about 5mins we were off to the end of the road on his quad! Thanks for invite Mike.. it was a fun night and awesome to get some fresh air!

There was still a decent light to get some photos.  The view at the end of the road. Not bad for 9:30pm!

Clouds hanging out.. just above the mountains…

Mike showing off his ‘large’ lens… 

After taking the above shots… I realized that my go-to-favourite-lens..that I use about 90% of the time had a fun rattle and hum.  This happened about a year ago…and I took it into a camera repair shop in Winnipeg and had it ‘rebuilt’ (it had fallen off the ‘zoom-tracks’)… kind of a bummer on the night.

Luckily I had my 10-22mm in my camera bag…so played around with that for the following shots.

Mike and I ventured out onto the ice… to see if we could get some cool shots.. looking through the pack ice.  Here’s what I came up with.

The last shot of the night…  I couldn’t decide if I liked the colour or the B&W…so decided to share both of them!  What do you think? Which do you like better?

Now that my 18-200mm is gone bust…I have a lot of decisions to make…what should I get to replace it with…there are so many lens choices out there!

My question out there for you photogs…what kind of lens do you have in your bag?

I’m a Canon gal… shoot with a 50D… other lenses in my bag are a 50mm, 10-22mm and a 50-500mm (which I don’t carry around all the time…) now that the 18-200mm is gone.. I have a bit of a ‘hole’ in my camera bag!

Any suggestions on lenses that would be awesome.