Day 27 – California Republic
This is a bumper sticker I saw on a parked car today. As Wikipedia so nicely teaches me, the Flag of California is a reference to the Bear Flag Revolt of 1846, four years before California became a state. The bear flag, however, was not legally made the state flag until 1911.
I find the flag to be relatively rarely used around here by private people, while the US flag is omnipresent. It seems, people have less of a need to declare their regional than their national affinity. (In Germany, this is quite different, but I’ll save that story until a later photo. Bear with me.)
This is a 14mm wide-angle photograph, which is why you can nicely see the distortions at the edges. My wide-angle lense is stuck open at its maximum, f/3.5 aperture, so it doesn’t take the sharpest pictures, but I still like it.
Do you know someone who owns a… “legacy” full-frame Canon DSLR (pre-2005, EOS-1Ds or such)? If I remember correctly, the lens should work fine with these; you could try it out.
This would also be a very good excuse to buy a vintage DSLR on Craigslist.
Head to N Cali and you might see flags for The State of Jefferson.
JP: … or a good reason to sell this lens to someone who has such a DSLR and use that as down payment for one that works with my camera
Micah: The State of Jefferson, very interesting historical tidbit! When driving on the roads of the southeast end of Oregon, it seemed to me like the indifference of the state governments towards the most distant parts of their state has not changed a whole lot since then… Curiously, both Idaho and Nevada took much, much better care of their winter roads.