if you're one of those kind, thoughful people who likes to give me things on my birthday ( and, of course, you remember my birthday is on may 25th! ), then i'd like you to know that all i really want is a brand new camera lens. see, i've been using the same lens(es) for two years and it's increasingly becoming an irritant to not have an effective focal length less than 75mm ( insert long, boring explanation here about what happens when you use 35mm film lenses on a digital camera ). but the new lenses i'm looking at ( i'm leaning towards either the Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM or the Sigma 18-50mm F/2.8 EX DC on the recommendation of philip greenspun. ) are mighty expensive. and given the upcoming Big Adventure, it's probably not a super idea to be dropping $500 on a lens.

but if everyone who might normally send me a giftcard or buy me a shirt or take me out to dinner and a movie all collectively sent me $10 or $20 or $50, well, then it looks a lot more reasonable. and just think you'll be helping to support me to take more pictures of your wonderful friend, daughter, son, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, nephew, grandson and great-grandson ( and probably quite a few gorgeous landscapes ). which will be all the more important because we might be moving away soon. and it would be a shame if i got all burned out and uncreative and didn't take anymore pictures. yes, that would be terrible indeed.

via the magic of teh internets you don't even have to send me a birthday card. you can simply click on the donate button below to send me money using a credit card ( no, you don't even need a paypal account. ). don't worry. i don't think it's an impersonal gift.

of course, you don't have to feel guilty if you don't help support me in getting the only thing i want for my birthday. but really. think of the children.

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