Not only is this going to be our usual monthly crop of the photos, it's also a whole different view of the world - through the eye of fish. Or, to put it better, using new toy, a fisheye lens, Samyang 7.5 mm (as if you care about such details). 

 

It presented a dazzling array of new opportunities in my most favorite town of all, Sidney by the Sea:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

opened new eyes on the Butchart Gardens:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

worked fine to showcase Marigold Nursery, our go-to place for everything that grows:

 

 

 

 

showed itself as a great forest/lake lens during Elk Lake walk:

 

 

 

 

 

gave a few splendid views in Beacon Hill Park:

 

 

 

 

 

and finally demonstrated its formidable abilities as an architecture lens around Royal British Columbia Museum:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now that you had your fill of fisheye images, probably more than you ever wanted in a single blog post, I promise to mix it up in the following posts with more conventional views. Consider this one an outburst of excitement about a new toy.