Lens for Sale
Surely there is someone out there who would like to be the proud owner of this fine 50mm f/1.2L lens for Canon EOS mount cameras. Its a fantastic lens offering a beautiful DOF control and low light capability. Those who know my desktops and other digital imagery from the last year and a half or so have seen it in action and what it can do. Own a little piece of my photo taking history heh.
I have decided to part ways with it for something wider, a 35mm lens. Because it is my only lens I simply need something a bit wider for some of what I need it for and so here it is, yours for the taking. It is a used lens but the only sign of use is there along the edge of the front of the lens a couple little scratches that are only seen if you look closely and in no way effects the lens’s performance. I really love this lens and hate to part with it but I cant afford to buy another new lens without selling this one first.
I am asking $1200 USD and shipping in the US is free and probably around $15 or so for international shipping though it would be easiest to sell it within the US. It comes with everything it originally shipped with as seen below and payments will be accepted through Paypal.
If you are interested simply send along an email using the link in the links section to the right or the link at the bottom of the page. Thanks!
Tiny Canvas
Those of you who have been following the site for a while know that I like to divide my activity on the web out into different places rather than stick every little thing into one blog. For the most part, I do this to keep the content focused on the various sites I try to keep up.
You Disappear, which is WAY overdue for a bunch of new albums I have discovered since my last post, is for my love of quiet music. Flickr is used to be part of that community and share photos on a more regular basis, more of my film work is usually posted over there. Drifting Through is my tumblr page for random discoveries and bits of creative inspiration. Twitter I use for slightly more personal snips of daily life and is the closest to a facebook type update page as you will see from me as facebook for some reason just seems weird to me heh. Fiftyfootshadows is my home and is a place to post desktops, share stories, and talk about photography from time to time. Expect a design refresh as well as a couple of new features and ideas to come into light here soon. There is also a project that I have been working on for a few months now with another photographer and I will post more on that soon as I am nearly done with a redesign for that site as well.
So at any rate, the reason for my writing here today is simply to announce officially to the 50ft readers another little corner for me to hide things in on the internet. An additional tumblr page called Tiny Canvas. As you may remember I recently posted a bunch of pretty nice images from my trip to India which I took with my iPhone and it was then that I realized that it was a pretty fun, viable source of capturing photos during the moments in my every day life that may have gone unnoticed. I have talked about starting up a photo blog for iPhone photography and I finally got around to setting one up and have started adding to it. I decided to use tumblr for it because it is super easy to post to with my phone and any one else using tumblr can follow me there pretty easily as well or simply use the RSS feed to follow along. I’m sure some of you will find it fun or interesting to dig through from time to time. Heres a link again, incase you missed it.
While I have your attention, does anyone out there know of a service online that could pull together my activity on the web through RSS feeds and display them on one site together? Like a John Carey hub online to make it easy for anyone interested to just get everything I do online in one convenient package. I’ve been looking for a decent solution for a while now but have not come up with anything just yet. Thanks 
India 120 help
Hello everyone, I wanted to take a moment here to ask for a little help with my photo processing. I try not to ask for anything around here but I am really starting to wonder what is to be found on my medium format rolls from India that I took on my Hasselblad but I simply dont have the money to get them developed! All I need is around $40-50USD to get them all developed and so I thought I would make a request for a couple of dollars from readers to see if I can get them done. With the holidays and bills and the trip I just don’t have enough left around to get them developed.
If anyone cares to help me out with the entire $50 for the cause I will happily also let you pick any of the images from the rolls and I will order a 12×12 print of any image from the rolls. I plan on scanning them in and I will make a special gallery for you to pick one from where you can see all the good shots from the rolls before anyone else 
Any help though would be fantastic and hugely appreciated. If anyone would like to have something in return for helping out I’m sure I can work out an 8×12 of any desktop image for anyone who gives $25. I will be making print sales a more permanent addition to fiftyfootshadows.net but it will most likely cost a bit more than that when it does happen so it may be a good time to buy a print of your favorite desktop. As with my other print sale there are a handful of desktops that I can not print for various reasons but I will work with you to make sure you’re happy!
Also, the prints will most likely not get to you until after the holidays… sorry about that! Just a symptom of the process.
Really at the moment I am honestly just trying to raise a few dollars for the photos and if you can not afford a print or whatnot even just $5 would go a long way I think. Like buying me a cup of coffee hehe… I will hold up this offer until I manage to get them developed. Hopefully sooner than later.
Just send me a mail if your interested in a $25 print or the $50 india120 print at john(at)fiftyfootshadows.net otherwise you can use this handy donate link below for little bite size help.
Thanks for reading and for the ongoing support of my project here on fiftyfootshadows.net. As the new year kicks in I have plans to touch things up around here and begin posting a good bit more often. Otherwise, I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season and I will talk to you again soon!
India
Well looks like the time has come, I will be in India until December 3rd traveling by train all over the place. Who knows what will come of this trip but I am most certainly excited about it. I want to thank everyone who supported me with print orders and those who did not get in on time we will work it out when I return. I may stop by here to say hello if I find some wi-fi for my iPhone which is the only technology I will have with me. So Needless to say there wont be much happening here over the next three weeks but I will return with a bunch of new photos to share I hope.
Wishing everyone all the best, thanks again for reading, I’m not sure if I could ever say that enough. See you again in a few weeks! -J
PRINTS
UPDATE #2: Thanks for everyone that participated! I am not able to take any more print orders as I travel. Those of you who missed the chance I think I will open up the floor again in December for prints so check back then for more!
UPDATE: all the auction prints below are now being sold on a first come first serve basis, see this post for more info.
Well, the time has come, I have chosen five film images to offer as prints for this sale to raise money for living expenses on my trip to india. They are being offered as the first edition of them being available to anyone in print form and many of you who follow the site know that the opportunity does not come up too often.
The images below will be printed as 8×12 prints, a size that will maintain the original aspect ratio of the 35mm negatives. While I considered a larger size I feel this is a good size for a 35mm print not too small but not so big that the small negative starts to show its limits. They will be printed at a trusted high quality local print shop on glossy paper because, personally, I feel glossy prints work best with color images nicer color, contrast and sharpness. I can provide further info on that if you would like to know. Keep in mind that the printed images may vary slightly in color, saturation, and contrast as not all computer screens will present these the same.
For the pricing, I have decided to put these up for sale for one week as an auction hosted myself here on the site. I will start the biding for each print at $35 USD and each day I will post the current price it is going for and on the last day there will be no crazy last minute bidding war like on ebay, I will simply take the highest offer.
Please submit your bids to john(at)fiftyfootshadows.net (bidding will be in USD)
The Auction will end on Sunday November 1st at midnight (Eastern US time) and I will send the high bidder for each image a Paypal mail asking for the amount of the ending price. Shipping will be included if it is within the U.S. but if is outside of the U.S. I will add $5 for shipping via airmail. I will ship them on Wed Nov 4th.
In addition to this I will also make available any desktop image here on fiftyfootshadows as either an 8×12 for $25 during this week only. I will collect orders for them and ship them on Wed Nov 4th as well. I will let you know if for some reason I don’t have an image available as a print from the desktop selection for various reasons and this excludes the desktops made from film images.
Thanks so much for your support everyone! Every little bit counts right now and I am happy to finally offer a few photos as prints to readers and I hope you guys enjoy the opportunity. All the best and I will keep you updated here on this post as the week moves forward.
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Writing – Current Bid $35
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Petroglyph Love – Current Bid $35
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Missing – Current Bid $35
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Awake – Current Bid $35
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Downstairs – Current Bid $35
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Note On Desktops
Hello everyone, I just wanted to write a quick note about the desktops available on the site. Its come to my attention that not everyone is able to find my probably too subtle links to the zip files containing the full resolution desktop images and I wanted to clear it up a bit here. Each desktop post on the site is marked within the desktop category so you know which ones are being posted as desktops. Within these posts I once made the image as the linking point to the downloadable zip file but later changed to a text link within the text of the post.
Somewhere along the way the links became lost in the text and my poor choice of hyperlink colors lead visitors to misunderstand where the desktops were to be downloaded. At any rate, for now, I have made the link color within posts a lovely orange to make them stand out more and in the future I will see about making the links more clearly defined.
Sorry for any confusion and thanks for reading my note here. I hope you continue to enjoy the blog and what I offer here. More desktops soon! I have a flickr spotlight I would like to sort out as well as some new images so as always, stay tuned for more and thanks for visiting!
So This Is The New Year
It looks like another year has slipped through my fingers. Nearly one year ago I started up this new project for my desktops after feeling twistedsun.net had run its course. While within the year it went through a couple different design changes I feel happy with the way things are looking and feeling right now and have a feeling this design will stick for a while. The site has seen a number of new readers as the year went on and the word got out and I am in constant thanks of their support.
So looking ahead I have a number of new things that will come from the new year. First off, in an effort to focus my efforts here my music posts will not be as often or as full featured and I will probably reserve the ones I make here for more specific things or when an album gets me really excited and I just have to share it. Music is an important part of my life and I don’t want to phase it out completely from fiftyfootshadows just yet. That said I would like to casually announce that I have started a new web project. A music site for the calm music of the world called You Disappear. I have been brainstorming and working on it for a few months now and I have gone live with it as of today. It’s not perfect yet and it will take a few months to build its library of albums I have no doubt that it will be a lot of fun to work on and maintain. Hopefully you all will take some time to head over and check it out. Maybe discover some great new music. The about page and the welcome post will help describe my motives in a little more detail.
You can visit youdisappear.net by clicking here.
In other news, I will continue to provide new desktop wallpapers as often as I can and possibly more articles and the like on photography if readers show enough interest. I also have a portfolio site for my photography in the works and will announce that when it goes live, hopefully in the next few months. I also have plans starting to take shape about prints, a book, and other sorts of fun things that I would like to pull into reality this year which is something else I am really looking forward to.
On a more personal note, I have been in Munich, Germany these past couple of months and while I have had a wonderful time here I will be heading back stateside on the 7th. My adventures wont stop there turns out as I have been planning a winter trip through southern Utah and I am really excited about it.
That’s about all for now, just a simple update and a moment to wish everyone a good new year. I for one feel a good year coming on and I’m looking forward to all the days coming ahead.
Heres to a new year and many more to come.
-John
Little Changes
Hey everyone, it was a slow cold day here in Munich so I took advantage of the time inside and messed with the design of the site a bit. Its something ive been wanting to do for a long time now but never made the time to actually finnish up. I like what I ended up with I think. I wanted something a bit darker after looking at that light grey for a year now. I may shrink the header just a bit to match the content width but I’m not sure yet. I kind of like it big. My reason for writing this post is to give a place for comments or suggestions or any oversights I may have missed. Reader feedback helps keep the blog going so please, let me know what you all think.
Also, in other news, I am working on a new web project that I hope to announce soon. I am working on getting some initial content in place and making decisions on how I will organize it and I am getting closer to being able to open it up to the public for feedback. Im pretty excited about it because its something I have wanted to try for a long while now. Its a music blog for my favorite kind of music, calm music. Modeled after an old website that I used to reference for new music a long while back.
Also, something I would like to do is something someone requested a while back that I never had the chance to write and thats a write up on how I approach shooting with my film cameras. Specifically my current favorite, my little Olympus XA. So thanks for reading and stay tuned for more desktops, music, and more. -John
UPDATE: So with the help of a friend I added a little bit of a shadow at the top of the site that everything fades into as you scroll up! I think its pretty neat and thought I would add that to my notes here to see if anyone else thinks its nice looking too..