Don’t you just love seeing the tender affection of new love? The excitement and anticipation?

Hannah and Luke are so in love. Especially Luke. That dude is nothing if not smitten.

Totally doting on her.

Ok. Hannah’s pretty smitten, too.

Basically, they’re young, in love and adorable.

How many times can I say “in love” and “smitten” in one post?

Can’t believe how many times I’m saying it. {cc: Graham . . . . er, Jude Law in The Holiday}

I’ll stop and let the pictures speak for themselves.

Congratulations, Hannah and Luke! You’re a beautiful couple.

Sooooo.

I have a lil’ funny story to tell y’all. It involves me, my awesome brain power, some pretty amazing photographic skills and um . . . . . ok. The awesome brain power and amazing photographic skills descriptions were just an exaggeration.

It would be more accurate to say it involves me, my camera and wide-angle zoom lens, some frustration, a revelation and lots of laughing and snorting.

It’s like this.

Whenever I would put my 24-70 mm lens onto my camera body, I would always see a vignetting when I had the lens at 24 mm.

You see the black shadows at the angles? That’s what I’m talkin’ about.

I’ve been zooming in until I couldn’t see the vignetting anymore, which was really frustrating me because the whole point of using my wide-angle lens is to shoot . . . . er, wide angle. ::snort::

Now, I never noticed this back when I was shooting with my d60 camera body. I’m pretty sure it’s because the d60 does not have a full-frame sensor like the d700, which means when I had the lens at 24 mm the d60 wasn’t truly seeing 24 mm. It was cropped.

I promise I have a point to this.

Last night, I was taking some shots of these canvases in our entry way. I noticed the vignetting again and I believe I stomped my foot.

Yes, I most definitely stomped my foot.

Then, I had a revelation.

“What if . . . . ”

“No.”

“But . . . ”

“Nu-uh.”

“Maybe?”

“That’s too easy.”

“Couldn’t be.”

“Could it?”

After about a minute of internal arguing, I decided to try taking off . . . . . {drum roll, please} the lens hood.

And voila!

All this time, I thought the lens itself was vignetting, but it was actually the lens seeing the edges of the lens hood.

It was Miss Scarlet. In the entry way. With the lens hood.

BAM!

P. S. Snorting is allowed.