This Year’s Holiday Wish List
It’s that time of year again. My birthday is just one week away and Christmas is right around the corner, so I’ve compiled a list of my most wanted items for the holiday gift giving season. I never get any of them, unless I buy them for myself, but I think its fun. Feel free to share or link your photography wish lists here in your comments.
At the top of my list are the Lensbaby Composer with Double Glass Optic for Canon, Gura Gear Kiboko Bag, and Gitzo GT1541T 6x Carbon Fiber Tripod. I’ve wanted the Lensbaby for a long time. It is a specialty lens that allows for unique depth of field perspectives and variable focus, and photos taken with it can have a surreal, abstract, or dreamy look to them. I plan to use mine mostly for flower photography, but I’m interested in exploring the other creative possibilities with it as well.
The Kiboko bag is a photographer friendly bag designed by Andy Biggs, a photographer who concentrates on photographing people and wildlife of Africa. It is lightweight and compact compared to other bags with similar carrying capacity, and I’ve been very impressed with it. It won’t be the end all solution to my equipment carrying needs, but it will hold everything I have now quite nicely and much more comfortably than my current bag.
The GT1541T is will be my landscape/hiking/backpacking tripod. It is much lighter and more compact than my three series Gitzo, which I need for using my telephoto lenses on, and it will be much easier to carry over long distances. I already have an order in for the Kiboko bag and tripod from the NatureScapes Store.
Of course, my list doesn’t stop there, but those three items are my priorities. In addition, I would love a dedicated underwater DSLR setup, an infrared converted DSLR, Canon’s 15mm fisheye, 85mm f/1.8, 180mm macro, and 800mm f/5.6 IS lenses, a few bags from Clik Elite and Think Tank, a new MacBook Pro, a Canon 500D close-up filter, a Singh-Ray blue and gold polarizer, and a handful of other items, including at least a dozen photography books and field guys (you can find my neverending wish list on Amazon). Any one of those items (or just a thick blanket of white snow on Christmas morning) would make my day though.
on December 7, 2009 at 3:51 am
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Wow, that’s quite a wish list. You say you never get any of the things on your wish list. You must have forgotten that you have to be a good girl to get those things. You must have been naughty those years. Merry Christmas anyway.
on December 30, 2009 at 4:33 pm
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Wow! big wish list, hope you got a least something out of it?
One quick question, what do you mean by”field guys”? (listed right after “a dozen photography books..”) Did you want a Sherpa to carry your gear? this is most likely an oops and a funny one at that.
Don’t mean to be rude, I just thought it was funny.
Hope you had a great Christmas, and have Happy New Year!