{"id":838,"date":"2008-06-21T15:14:49","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T20:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cosmicpluto.com\/blog\/?p=838"},"modified":"2008-06-21T15:14:49","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T20:14:49","slug":"happy-fun-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/?p=838","title":{"rendered":"happy fun time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got me my new toy!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/50101784@N00\/2596402542\/\" title=\"my new true love by cosmicpluto, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3008\/2596402542_5ca06ffe20.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"my new true love\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I decided to go with the Nikon d40 &#8211; it&#8217;s nice and small, perfect for my teeny hands. I got the kit lens, an 18-55mm, and also bought this lens off my friend Andrea &#8211; it&#8217;s the 50mm f\/1.8. I love it! Such pretty pictures!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/50101784@N00\/2595567085\/\" title=\"dream in color baby by cosmicpluto, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3167\/2595567085_c55b0ce253.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"dream in color baby\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still practicing, since the 50mm isn&#8217;t an AF-S lens, it&#8217;s only manual focus on this camera (one of the downsides of this model). But I still got some great shots at knit night the other night! Mostly of the kids, really, since they&#8217;re such adorable models.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/50101784@N00\/2597426541\/\" title=\"zoe! by cosmicpluto, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3050\/2597426541_b8f41a0c15.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"zoe!\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/50101784@N00\/2598258162\/\" title=\"knit night by cosmicpluto, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3282\/2598258162_a016962bc6.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"knit night\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/50101784@N00\/2598254902\/\" title=\"chew toy by cosmicpluto, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3002\/2598254902_aae84d5e32.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"chew toy\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Check out Keri&#8217;s super cool bling sweater! See the beads?<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/50101784@N00\/2598255438\/\" title=\"keri's bling sweater by cosmicpluto, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3125\/2598255438_6c38372ec0.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"keri's bling sweater\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Finally, a shot of <a href=\"http:\/\/craftygrrrl.ca\/\">Liam<\/a>, hamming it up for the camera:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/50101784@N00\/2596401830\/\" title=\"liam is awesome by cosmicpluto, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3184\/2596401830_8794d1202a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"liam is awesome\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>All these photos are unretouched (sorry <a href=\"http:\/\/notanartist.blogspot.com\">Michelle!<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>I love this camera!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got me my new toy! I decided to go with the Nikon d40 &#8211; it&#8217;s nice and small, perfect for my teeny hands. I got the kit lens, an 18-55mm, and also bought this lens off my friend Andrea &#8211; it&#8217;s the 50mm f\/1.8. I love it! Such pretty pictures! I&#8217;m still practicing, since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,54,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-knitting","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurachau.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}