Lately, I find that I’m usually choosing one lens to put on my Fuji camera when I go out for a photo outing with my friends. We are usually gone for few hours. I carry nothing else except for an extra battery. I mostly use my 18-55 lens which covers landscape and close ups. I’ve taken it to Bodega Bay to catch ocean scenes and to the Antique Trove to capture some indoor close ups.




When I go to the Sacramento Zoo, I always take my 55-200 mm lens. It does a great job of capturing giraffes and also gets me up close and personal with an orangutan.


You know I love Macro. When I need a lift, I take my Fuji and macro lens to the Green Acres Nursery. There I find many macro-opportunities.

The McKinley Park Rose Garden is another of my favorite places to take my macro lens.

Macro lenses are great for photographing other things like this bird. I was in the Rose Garden and saw it above me.

And then there’s my old trusty prime F/4 300 mm lens I use on my Nikon D7100 for bird shots. I don’t use it often but when I do, I appreciate it. Actually, this lens is why I’m holding on to my Nikon.


If I know I’ll be gone on a longer photo outing and not near my car, I’ll put on my waist pack containing an extra lens giving me a total of 18-200 mm in length. It also carries extra batteries, filters, water, lens cloth and tissues. My problem is, I don’t like changing lenses in the field. Maybe that’s why I challenge myself with one lens each outing.
My challenge for you is to take a lens for a walk. Yes, choose a lens and walk. You can also use your cell phone or point and shoot camera and see what you can do with it. Another trick, when you’re using a zoom lens, is to pick an aperture and stay with it. If you don’t have time or the weather isn’t cooperating, then delve into your archives. Look for images that represent one F stop or close to it. Most of all, have fun! Remember to link to this post when you take us on your one-lens walk and use the Lens-Artists tag.
We all enjoyed looking back with you during Sophia’s challenge last week. I thought your responses were unique and interesting. Next week our newest team member Donna Holland of Wind Kisses will be leading the challenge. Be sure to look for her post. Have a great week!
If you would like to participate weekly in our Lens-Artists Challenge, click here for more info.
Nice kit, nice photos! 18-55mm was my fave lens when I had multiples.
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Thanks John! I’m looking forward to see your favorite lens/aperture when you post.
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This is such a great challenge! I like that you showed us how you work your different lenses. A real insight into your photography. Your bird shots are always exquisite Anne and I also love your orangutan portrait.
Here is mine:
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Thank you for this challenge. Your examples using the different lenses are wonderful.
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Thank you Beth! I hope to see your reply to this challenge during the week.
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Oh this is an interesting challenge. I love you photo choices.
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Thank you Karina! I’m looking forward to seeing your response.
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Fun challenge. I’ll be back with some photos. 😊
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Thanks Pepper. I’ll be looking for your post!
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Loved your challenge this week Anne.The orangutan is amazing and as always your flowers are incredible! I too have several “favorite” lenses for my Fuji but as you’ll see in my post, the smartphone you have with you tends to beat them all when they’re home in the drawer LOL! My post is here https://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com/2023/01/21/lens-artists-challenge-233-a-one-lens-walk/
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Thanks Tina! I do wish Fuji would come out with an 18-200 or 300 mm lens. I don’t like changing lenses in the field.
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https://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com/2023/01/21/lens-artists-challenge-233-a-one-lens-walk/
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Nice Response. The droplets were fantastic.
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Wonderful photos.
My Canon PowerShot doesn’t have a lens change function so won’t be contributing this time
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Thanks Bushboy. Your Cannon PowerShot has a lens that you can control making the aperture wider or longer. The lens just doesn’t come off. Go through your archives and check the properties section of your processing program to find out which aperture you use the most. Or you can just sit this one out.
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Thanks Anne 🙂
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I always love seeing a few scenes (Sac Zoo and McKinley Rose Garden) of my former hometown, Anne! Thanks for explaining which lenses do the heavy lifting. This post inspired more content in tomorrow’s Sunday Stills post which I will link back to tomorrow!
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Thanks Terri! Looking forward to your post.
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Such an interesting challenge Anne.I will try to respond. And I very much enjoyed your photos and explanations of your lenses.
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Thank you Anne! I’ll look for your post!!
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Wonderful photos – I have 2 favorite lenses so I’m going to need on think on this challenge
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Thanks Nora! Do your post on both. Tell us the reason and when you use each.
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Thanks and will do!
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Great. I’ll be looking for it.
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Lovely selection of photos Anne!
This is indeed a challenge for it needs some detective work and working on the laptop 😀. Will give me the opportunity for some technical analysis of my photo collection, which I hardly ever do!
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Thank you PR! I think understanding why you use certain lenses is important and I hope this challenge leads all to that understanding.
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Here’s mine. https://heavenssunshine.com/colors-of-winter/
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Great response Pepper!
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Great challenge!!! Yous images are wonderful, my favorite the first one, that landscape in black and white is beautiful.
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Thanks Ana! Your response was great. I’m glad you liked the first black and white. I put it in my camera club’s competition and the judge hated it! Photography is subjective!
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I love the macro photos, well I like them all, but especially those.
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Thanks Leanne! I do love doing macro work.
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wonderful topic, Anne. When starting photographing digitally, I also got the 18-55 in my kit and hated it. For me, it was too short on both sides also it’s the same as I had in my film days: 35-70, and 28-70 later.
I have a 24-120 for nearly 10 years now (16-85 APS-C equivalent) and love that focal range.
https://solaner.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/lens-artists-photo-challenge-233-a-one-lens-walk/
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Thanks Andre. I do miss the 18-200 mm I have for my Nikon. But Fuji separates the focal length into two lenses. Darn! I’m clumsy at switching lenses in the field.
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I can understand you. But often these mega zoom lenses don’t have good optical qualities. Once I got borrowed the Sigma 50-500. Although it’s praised by many people on the internet, I have to say, the optical quality is bad. Combining such a huge focal range is alway a compromise: price, weight, size, speed (aperture), and optical quality.
Depending on the overall surroundings it can be difficult to dangerous to change lenses in the field. For my trips to Namibia for example, I brought two cameras: 1 with a long tele-zoom and the other with the universal 24-120. so, no lens change was necessary. Friends of mine went with 3-4 cameras when they were in Africa years ago for exactly the same reason: no dust to come inside and to be fast enough when an animal appears 😊
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Beautiful photos through your lens, Anne! Love your macro images. Lovely bird and animals. The B&W images are also my favorite!
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Thanks Amy! I’m looking forward to seeing your post!!
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Here is my link, Anne, thank you for hosting this week! https://secondwindleisure.com/2023/01/22/sunday-stills-snowy-sounds-of-silence/
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Great post Terri!
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It’s rather interesting to have just read a blog post at Wicked Dark about luck and having a long lens to capture an eagle in a tree, and now one lens photo trips. Both really hit home – traveling light and traveling prepared. Nice series altogether!
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Thanks -N! I like to travel light, but I’m seldom prepared. I’ve viewed tutorials about scouting out your shot and waiting for the perfect moment. With me it’s more of seeing the opportunity and taking the shot.
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Like you, I am not likely to prepare myself by standing around waiting for the proverbial decisive moment. Vivan Maier did it, and I guess Cartier-Bresson did, too. Sometimes I go out for a walk at the local college campus just to shoot some places I like and see what I see. And with a digital, you can just take the scatter gun approach and wait and see when you get home!
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Great post Sarah!
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Some interesting thoughts here about how you choose each lens to take out to each specific place. I especially love your macro shots! As I no longer have separate lenses, favouring a fixed lens bridge or even point and shoot camera, I thought at first that this challenge wasn’t for me. Then I realised I was making a similar choice each time I decided which camera to take on an outing. From there it was easy to decide to share my most recent outing with a camera AND with a fellow blogger! https://www.toonsarah-travels.blog/a-city-stroll-in-london/
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An entertaining and educating challenge. Love it . Some beautiful examples – the orangutan is marvelous! Let’s see what I can do…
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Thanks Ann-Christine! I’ll look for your post.
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I loved this challenge. The way you organized your thoughts was so informative. I was grateful for a purposeful walk, AND in tucking my cell phone away for a bit. I love your work and always love when take us to the zoo. Always a pleasure, Anne. Very nice. Thank you.
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A great post and challenge, Anne. We have the same camera and the same favorite lens! I love your beautiful examples and thoughts on the capabilities and strengths of each lens. I used a prime lens (35mm) for my post. It makes me less lazy! It’s also great in low light. Wishing you a good week ahead.
Here’s a link: https://wordpress.com/view/pilotfishblog.com
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Thanks Patti! When I clicked on your link, I was sent back to my post. Eventually I had to type in your blog address in a new window. It was well worth the effort.
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Thanks for the heads-up! I’m delighted you enjoyed it. Let’s try another link:
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Great post! See my comments.
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Those are great results with the 300 lens. Actually, seeing that I think the sensor is now as important as the lens, because I cannot get that quality with my bridge camera’s zoom set at 300 mm equivalent.
I decided to go with photos from my phone: https://anotherglobaleater.wordpress.com/2023/01/23/walking-near-the-periyar-river/
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Great response I. J. See my comments on your post.
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I love those floral macro shots, Anne! Your bird photos are so well composed. I have much respect for great wildlife photography. I need to pack my patience when I go on those trips… so often, I forget to bring it along. >grin<
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Thanks John! When I go birding, I go with a true bird photographer and she has the patience and is driving. I have no choice but to be patient.
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Here is my contribution to this challenge: https://chava61.wordpress.com/2023/01/23/lapc-233-one-lens-walk-2023-asian-new-year-celebration/
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Great video Chava. See my comments on your post.
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This link should work. I
don’t see my earlier reply. Sorry for the bother of searching!
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That’s okay. I managed to find you! You can’t hide from me!!
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So sorry for the confusion…
One lens is up: https://shareandconnect.wordpress.com/2023/01/23/lapc-233-a-one-lens-walk/
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Beautiful images Anne, I especially love the way you captured the bird above you with your macro lens 💖 At this time of year, I tend to bring only one lens for a walk as I find it a challenge to swap lenses in rain, wind and snow. My contribution for this week’s lovely challenge was shot with a 20 mm f/1.8 lens, which I love using in low-light conditions: https://whippetwisdom.com/2023/01/23/haiku-sheltered-wood/
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Thank you Xenia! You and your lens did a wonderful and beautiful job.
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Very nice pictures 🙂
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Thank you DW!
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These captures are really wonderful. Very lovely 🙂
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Thank you Hammad!
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Finally managed to post 😀! It’s here:
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Beautiful. I’ve been hoping to take part in more challenges in 2023. Thanks for giving us an opportunity.
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I hope you continue with LAPC each week!
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Thanks so much.
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