Been blasting Les Miserables’ One More Day into my head. It’s a very beautiful song, and I love it when they sing the line “Tomorrow we’ll discover what our God in heaven has in store”. It sounds so optimistic and well, in a way, inspirational to me. If you want to watch Les Mis via a recording, please watch the 10th Anniversary Version! That version is really awesome. 
Anyway, I had the opportunity to try out my 14-24mm today (because I lugged it to work and managed to squeeze in some time to try it, although I was mainly using my 60mm to take photos of other things) and I’d say it’s FREAKING AWESOME. BEST BUY EVER. I DO NOT regret buying this lens; besides being so great at taking wide angle photos of rooms (which I will need at my work), it’s secretly a very good camwhore lens. Luckily Miaoster advised me to get this instead of a MacAir! Teehee! I bet the ladies will be camwhoring with the 14-24 soon. (:
GAHHHHH should have bought this lens before I went to the Maldives! Using the 14-24 on those waters and skies would have been a much better (and sharper) option compared to the 28-200. Ah well, at least my 28-200 took some decent photos and it wasn’t as heavy as the 14-24. Luckily Derrick was there to carry all my luggage. Btw, more photos of the Maldives below!
Here’s a photo of a bunch of villas that D and I came across during our stay at one of the islands in the Maldives. Pretty cool eh! The grayish spots on the water are actually schools of herring swimming around in the shallow parts of the sea… waiting to be eaten by the reef sharks. One of the marine biologists at the Diving Centre told us that these fish come every year to mate here, and they never leave after mating… hence they get munched on by the sharks after that. How tragic right. 
I suppose it was a blessing that D and I managed to see these herring because they only come to the Maldivian waters once a year.
One of the nicer sunsets during my stay at the Maldives. The photo was naturally very purplish in nature, compared to some of my photos in my collection which were more blueish. It may be due to the fact that I gave it a longer exposure. I was lucky enough to find a spot which I could prop up my camera to take a long exposure shot; my other sunset photos were taken using spot metering and pumping my ISO to ridiculous levels. This naturally means that my other sunset photos may not share the same quality as this purplish photo. Sad.
This is the photo that has a more blueish tint in it. The white spot in the middle of the sky is actually the moon. I am so glad I bothered to bring my camera there. The vignette here is quite beautiful! However, I still prefer the previous photo. It’s much more soothing somehow heh. Or maybe I just prefer purple. Ladeedum.
I’ve got work tomorrow and I think I’ll have a chance to try out my 14-24 again under official capacity, which is a good thing, yay! 14-24 FTW! But Nikon should have made it in such a way that a lens protector could be mounted onto the lens. Now I have to spend half of my time worrying about this precious glass ball that protrudes out slightly from the lens hood and make sure that it doesn’t get damaged. :\
Ah well, being able to not damage your lens at all is a skill on its own (that all photographers should master)!
