400!

After years of talking, dreaming and drooling, I recently pulled the trigger on a major acquisition. Like the Braves' trade for Mark Teixeira, my purchase of a super-duper new lens -- the Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS USM -- will hopefully put me (and my long-distance photographs) over the top! Here are some photos of me, acting like a goofball, and opening my new toy. Since I'm too young, too single and too poor to have a son or a daughter, this will have to do for now...