Who doesn’t love a little distortion in photos?
The stairs/amphitheatre outside of the Reynolds Journalism Institute.
I’ve checked out a 14-24/2.8 lens for a few days, and it’s a lot of fun to use on a full-frame camera body like the D700.
I remember David telling us in Fundamentals — the first photojournalism course in the sequence — that we should distort our photos only when distortion enhances or adds to the photos’ quality or storytelling ability. So I’ve been keeping this in mind, and am on the lookout for scenarios and environments where warping the image via the lens would contribute to the image.
Here’s another one:
Some gnarly little tree near Middlebush.
And one more, which I took last night:
Some poor abandoned sweater in a tree next to the Manor House graduate apartments.
I have this lens until tomorrow evening. I’m bound and determined to have fun with it until then.
Words and Light 
photograph 1 is exceptionally good!
Very nice shot, both 1 and 2 are great.
When was there blue sky today?
While you were holed up in your basement room, trying to make Aperture work. The sun was out, and it was nice.
“Distortion” is an unfair somewhat unfair: a wide angle lens does what a wide angle lens will do: it creates distance between the foreground and background, whereas a telephoto lens “distorts” reality by sandwiching the foreground and background, making things far apart seem very close together.
I think you should check on the D700’s settings–that lens is vignetting more than it should; there should be a way to correct for that in-body if you’re using JPEG, but if you’re using RAW you can adjust that in Camera RAW.
@ Jeff via Chris: Lightroom is WAY better. Break yourself away from the cult of Apple.
Fun, fun, fun!!! Your sense of play is contagious…
@David, I’m gonna start a pro-vignetting club, and you’re not going to be invited to be a member 🙂
Nice use of the lens Chris.
Haha thanks, August.
@David — Seems to me there’s hardly any vignetting in the lefthand corners. If you’re concerned about the top right corner, I think there’s some in-camera vignetting enhancing the vignetting you’d get out of shooting the sky with the sun in the frame like that, while using any camera.