A beautiful, yet scary oak alley …
I have been trying to get this shot for quite some time, I don’t just drop by and snap…I have a shot in my mind’s eye and try to conquer it. I have been waking up at 5 am and drove to the spot 4 times, but as always, you cannot plan what nature will do…Besides, humans are always in the way to screw things up too lol…I met Murphy there a coupe of times…That son of a gun is no good:)
I was so happy when I finally got these two shots of this beautiful, yet scary alley of Oak trees not too far from Oak Alley Plantation. In this very same location, Quentin Tarantino will be shooting his new feature film “Django Unchained” ( Jamie Foxx , Leonardo DiCaprio and Kevin Costner are among the few starts confirmed ). Django Unchained’s crew have been working there for over a month setting up everyting ahead of the shoots and the security around there is a pain in da…butt. Can’t wait to see the movie, hopefully we’ll see a shot right in this alley of oak trees too. :0
St Louis Cathedral in a gumbo of fog, sunshine and clouds…
I don’t ever get tired of shooting the French Quarter in New Orleans, maybe because it’s so European and I feel at home, maybe just because it’s so unique! In the middle of it all, first to catch the sunrise and the fog poured in by the River is the St. Louis Cathedral. I particularly love these new photos I took since the fog is patchy and not ”layered” evenly everywhere. The St. Louis Cathedral is lit by the sun, everything else is in the fog, yet Decatur Street is still in the shade, and the sky is blue with clouds in it too! There is a “whole lot of light going on”, in other words…A gumbo of light 
. Please do not forget to scroll down on this post, there are also a couple of other shots that I LOVE, one of Decatur St. at sunrise and one of the New Orleans Skyline , yep, French Quarter again…
To order fine art prints of the images below please click each one and you will be taken to my other Fine Art Photography site www.nolaPIC.com This blog dos not allow you to order any prints. For licensing feel free to contact me at Canon[at]pompo.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
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To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
French Quarter Photography at Forever New Orleans on Royal Street
Click image to see Google map of store location
I have recently started displaying my work at Forever New Orleans in the heart of the French Quarter! If you are a local, you already know where the place is located at, but if you are visiting, the address is: 700 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA 70116 . It is very close to Jackson Square and Preservation Hall (corner of St. Peter and Royal St.). If you are shopping for some of the best photos of the French Quarter in New Orleans for yourself or as a gift, you must see these Canvas Gallery Wraps! Sizes range from 20″x 20″ to 10″x 15″ they are stretched on wooden frame and ready to hang. (Signed of course).
To see all of my available New Orleans Fine Art Photography and purchase them online, please go to www.nolaPIC.com .
Fine Art Photography at the New Orleans Hyatt Regency
Five large prints of mine were commissioned by the New Orleans Hyatt Regency Hotel for display in the exibit hall by the lower ballroom, towards the back of the hotel. If you happen to visit New Orleans and/or stay at the newly remodeled (recently re-opened after almost 6 years after Katrina) Hyatt Regency, which is not too far from the Mercedes Benz Superdome my photographs are displayed on either side of the lower ballroom entrance. To get there you will need to go to the third floor of the hotel, walk towards the back, passing the first restaurant to the right and the second to the left ,then take the stairs down to the lower ballroom, the prints are on either side of the entrance to the ballroom. Please have a look and feel free to comment in here anytime to let me know what you think. Your feedback will be very welcome.
Below is another shot taken at the Hyatt Regency , if you’ll click on each (above and below this text), you wil be taken on my New Orleans Fine Art Photography fullfillment site ( nolaPIC.com ) where you will be able to order these same pictures or choose among many others I have taken in the past years in New Orleans and in the French Quarter.
The five photos purchased from the Hyatt Regency Hotel are also shown below. Please scroll down and click on each image to see them larger on my site nolaPIC.com where you will be able to order high quality fine art prints of these shots, amone many others.
Fine Art Engagement Photography in The French Quarter
Just a few shots from my latest engagement photo shoot with Amy and Christian from Dallas TX. The shoot was done early in the morning in the French Quarter of New Orleans; and when I say early, I mean EARLY, (just after sunrise), when the light is great and the temperature is more manageable. The streets and alleys in the French Quarter are more romantic when they are deserted. A beautiful day with a beautiful couple form some great pictures which they will hopefully enjoy forever. As we say in Italy: Auguri e figli maschi, Amy and Christian!
Here below is another enagement photo session done in New Orleans French Quarter with Natalie and Conar from Tennessee
New Orleans is one of the most romantic, colorful and photogenic cities in the US, full of opportunities for unique engagement photo shoots. While the French Quarter was still crowded with lots of people still hanging out from Mardi Gras’, we managed to get some great images thanks to the location scouting I did a few days before the photo shoot. As you can see from the images below my main focus (pun intended) is to shoot with a modern and more graphic feel to it than a photojournalistic style. Framing the photos balancing spaces and objects in relation with the couple and color palettes of the French Quarter was my approach which I think worked quite well. Of course I did take some more everyday type photos since the French Quarter was really too crowded to take only those clutter free graphic type images, it would have taken a week with all the traffic and tourists!. What a lovely and fun couple to work with…These below are just some of the shots for you to see. Thank you Amy and Christian + Natalie and Conar for the trust and the hard work!
2011 Satchmo Summerfest
This is the second time that I have attended and shot the Satchmo Jazz Mass at the St. Augustine Church in Treme. The event is part of the annual Satchmo Summerfest which is held every year at the old US Mint on Esplanade Ave. in New Orleans. To be perfectly clear last year I didn’t actually attend “all the way”, since I wasn’t expecting the church to be so crowded so early, I ended up getting there a bit too late to get in, so I was stuck outside waiting for the function to end so I could shoot the second line! As many of you know, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong was a native New Orleanian, and that is the reason why we celebrate his birthday with a Jazz Mass, second lines and music, (lots of it) . To see more pictures from the 2011 Satchmo Summerfest are here.
Getting up “very” early allowed me to position myself close the brass band, on the exact side of the church where I had planned to be on…Actually when I got there, St. Augustine Church was still closed . I’m pretty satisfied with the photos, hard work always pays off!
More pictures from the 2011 Satchmo Summerfest are here
More pictures from the 2011 Satchmo Summerfest are here
St Louis Cathedral and Lucky Dogs Photographs
This image of St Louis Cathedral makes me VERY happy since I waited for quite a long time yesterday to capture this photo. I have seen many shots of St Lous Cathedral, but the light, weather and angle in this photo, makes it very unique, moody and romantic. It was very well worth it to deal with rain and super high humidity yay! It is available as a 10″x 10″ or 20″x 20″ fine art print or as a 20″x20″ giclees (canvas gallery wrap).
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
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If you have read the famous book a “A Confederacy of Dunces” you should already know about these Lucky Dogs carts that are all over the French Quarter selling “gourmet hot dogs”. I tried to eat one once, but since I wasn’t drunk ( I don’t ever drink) it tasted pretty nasty to me. Maybe I forgot the relish , who knows, maybe it is true that people just eat them to soak up some the handgranades they have had . Anyway, getting back to business, this image is available as a fine art print here.
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
Photos of rainy Royal Street & a mix of sun and fog for a change…
I have been so busy lately that I haven’t been able to update this blog of mine as I should have… Among the updates that I like to share :
- I have re-organized www.nolaPIC.com very recently; all the pictures are categorized by subject and theme and they will be easy to find (as they should have been in the first place!).
- Some of my best giclees (canvas gallery wraps) and prints are available for purchase at “Art Smart” in the French Quarter in New Orleans - Art Smart 912 Decatur St., New Orleans LA 70116 PH 504- 527-0027
- “Forever New Orleans” will be showing and selling my best gicless (canvas gallery wraps) size 10″x15″ and 15″x15″ starting on Tuesday July 12, 2011. The charming boutique is located on Royal Street at St. Peters right on the corner across Rouses in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Forever New Orleans PH: 504-586-3536
Finally here are just a few shots that I just did which I really like that needs your attention! Please do keep on checking my site www.nolaPIC.com since that is the place to find the newer images and that’s where you can order prints and giclees from. As I said before I don’t have too much time available to update this blog with the most recent New Orleans Photography as I would like to, and to tell you the truth, I’d rather be shooting !
PS. Do not forget to scroll all the way down on the bottom of this post or you might miss that killer photo of Pirate’s Alley wrapped in that French Quarter fog and Forever New Orleans right below!
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
French Quarter Prints available at the French Market
If you are shopping for some of the best photos of the French Quarter in New Orleans, you must see these photos! It sounds like paid advertisement I know, but trust me, you are going to love them as well! These are some of my best photos of the French Quarter taken in the past 2 years and they are available at Art Smart in New Orleans.
The photographs are signed by Alfonso “Pompo” Bresciani and printed on 12″x18″ paper with a white border, for handling and matting. Since I just brought them there they may not even be framed and/or shown at all yet, so you gonna have to ask for them if you go right away
The Gallery is located in the French Quarter of New Orleans, not too far from Cafe du Monde (on the same side of Decatur)
Art Smart
912 Decatur St.,
New Orleans LA 70116
Click the link for a Google map to see the gallery location: http://tinyurl.com/6apv36d
Other canvas Gallery Wraps of my photo works (Giclees) are available at Art Smart as well (shown below).
If you would like to see all of my available New Orleans Fine Art Photography online, please go to www.nolaPIC.com where you can order photo prints (even framed) , and canvas gallery wraps online.
Dr John at Tipitina’s
One April 20th, 2011, on the one year memorial of the worst man-made enviromental disaster in our nation’s history, coastal residents are coming together to honor the 11 men that died & those that fought to protect our coast. After town hall meetings and debates the musics had to roll at Tipitina’s in the French Quarter. Here below are few of the best shots of Dr. John performing (click on each image to see them larger or to purchase prints on my other site nolaPIC.com).
Maison LeMonnier in the French Quarter of New Orleans
Dr. LeMonnier’s home, on Royal St. in the French Quarter in New Orleans, referred to as “New Orleans’ first skyscraper” which towers three stories high. In the foreground are the elaborate cast-iron gallery railings of LaBranche House. It is one of th emot-photographed residences in New Orleans. To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
Even More New Orleans Streetcars Photography !
The more pictures of streetcars I take, the more challenging it gets to come up with something unique and killer, however I don’t think I will ever grow tired of shooting them, in particular the line on Canal Street whose vehicles are red, and runs through all kind of interesting backgrounds, traffic lights and bright traffi is my favorite. Chances are that if and when I will somehow get a little bored with the current Canal St. line or the one on St. Charles Avenue (green ones), the new streetcars lines will be up and running on Rampart Street as it was recently announced! Will they be a bright orange, turquoise maybe? Will the new streetcars be completely brand new with air conditioning and HD monitors in them? Plain air conditionion will be just fine …?
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
Never let a good rainy day go 2 waste…(part2)
I finally had the time to post on this blog some of my newest images taken in 2011 in New Orleans (mostly in the French Quarter) and they are all available on my gallery site www.nolaPIC.com . Sadly winter is almost over and the moody and gloomy ligh,t the rain and the deserted streets that I love are becoming a lot more alive and colorful. Please Bob Breck let me have another major cold front (or two!) I have another post lined up with new pictures after this with some really killer streetcars shots taken on Cana Street and after that I’m afraid it will be time for Mardi Gras pictures…I’ll do my best to capture the celebrations I promise!All fine art prints are also available framed and with non glare glass with or without a mat. To see some more of my photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
These pictures below of the Preservation Hall are so far my favorites, best I have ever taken, the light was just perfect and it was rainy and the framing was just right! Yay!
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
New Orleans Canal Street and the CBD at twilight
I have been drooling for a quite awhile now for these types of images and have been wanting to take them facing downward to Canal St. in New Orleans at twilight. Canal Street is very unique, so long and wide, but it is also very hard to shoot unless your are up high, and I mean way up there. These shots here were taken from the top of the World Trade Center building at the foot of Canal Street where the view is just incredible and beyond description; you will be surprised also how strong the northerly winds blows when it gets funneled between the rows of buildings on Canal St.! The images are available in square or rectangular format. Please click each of them to the to my other site where you can view them larger and/or purchase them.
Never let a good rainy day go to waste…
Oh wow it was so worth it, yet again I got some killer shots in the French Quarter during this last winter storm brushing up southeast Louisiana! Although it didn’t bring any of the white powdery stuff that we get to see down here so rarely, it brought once again the magic lights and moods of desolated streets and alleys… all of these photos below are available as fine art prints at www.nolaPIC.com Click any image below to get to the fine art print, where you can view them larger and/or purchase them.
Walter Payton Jr. Celebration and Second Line
Panorama of New Orleans Skyline on Canal Street
Ladies and Gentlemen I’m very glad to announce my latest fine art photography work shot on Canal Street in New Orleans!
Since I have been waiting quite a while (weeks!) to get this photo done I’m very pleased with the results! Not only the magic twilight and angle makes the photo quite unique, but the never seen subject itself is a newer one that I have never seen done here! I got a little soaked and had to be a contortionist to get to shoot this image, but as always, hard work always pays off and as matter of facts I can’t stop staring at it! It is available as an open edition print at nolaPIC.com (my online fullfillment website). This killer New Orleans skyline image features Canal Street with the bright red streetcar we all know or at least have heard of, in the foreground, and the central business district in the background. To see another KILLER panorama (taken from the west bank instead) please click here!!!
Photos of Black Men of Labor Second Line
Some of the best photos from the 2010 Black Men of Labor Second Line are online at nolaPIC.com ( Second Lines & Parades > Misc Second Lines )
More fine art photography at www.nolaPIC.com
More fine art photography at www.nolaPIC.com
More fine art photography at www.nolaPIC.com
More fine art photography at www.nolaPIC.com
Satchmo Summerfest
On Sunday August 8th, as part of the 2010 Satchmo Summerfest, held every year in New Orleans to celebrate the life, music and legacy of New Orleans’ native son, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, I had the privilege to attend and photograph another great event! Although the weather was 99F with heat index as high as 105F to 110F, after the parade started, everyone seemed to enjoy the second line and music as usual and forget how hot and miserable it was. Someone said once…If you don’t know why New Orleanians aren’t afraid to go to Hell, you never been down there in the middle of the summer! Please see some of the images I shot at the second line and do not forget that all comments are highly appreciated! These images and many more are available as fine art prints (also framed) at my other site nolaPIC.com.
I will make sure next year to be there in time at 10 AM for the Jazz Mass, since this year I have only caught the end of it and I wished so bad I made it in…The church was packed!!! See the video below it’s the very end of the Satchmo Jazz Mass right before I sshot the image above of Jennifer Jones leading the Second Line out of the church. Video shot by Ricky Riccardi a Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong aficionado.
More fine art photography at www.nolaPIC.com
More fine art photography at www.nolaPIC.com
More fine art photography at www.nolaPIC.com
More fine art photography at www.nolaPIC.com
Actor’s Headshots and Portraits Photo Sessions
Acting Headshots New Orleans
Your Headshot is Your Strongest Tool and Calling Card!
Portrait sessions are available to anyone in the New Orleans metro area that are in need of professional photography for personal use such as own website, internet social networks headshots (Facebook etc.) or portfolio submissions for acting or modeling. The photo sessions are done outdoors using, natural, available lighting or even indoor if you have a location in mind that is bright enough in your house, (by a window) in your greenhouse, etc. I am not a fan of artificial light, therefore I only use natural light which I sometimes bounce with a silver reflector if the light is harsh. There is a reason why I own some of the brightest lenses that Canon makes. So, pick a date and location in the New Orleans metro area and please contact me Canon[at]pompo.com (change the [at] with @ ) a few days in advance to schedule with me to get your headshots promptly done in new orleans.
My main objective is to communicate through a photograph your uniqueness and who you truly are. Your headshot is indeed the strongest tool you have until you become an established actor and it is your calling card!
If you are thinking of pursuing an acting career, please do keep in mind that movie productions and talent agencies aren’t only searching for good looking people; lots of extras and actors are marketable because of their unique characters and features. These are a few of the qualities that makes them interesting and therefore successful in getting noticed. Danny Devito is one great example…Don’t you love him? He is one of my favorite actors and despite being 5′ tall, overweight (and balding), he has managed to become one of Hollywood’s most versatile actors! With all the new motion pictures coming to New Orleans, the needs for extras it’s only gonna get greater, ( check theLouisiana Entertainment and the New Orleans Office of Film & Video sites!) so be yourself and do market yourself for who you really are, nobody better than you knows what your strenghts are!
Rates and Details
Photo shoots are priced at $220 if done at City Park in New Orleans or $250 in the French Quarter and includes:
- Photo session on location (two hours shooting or a maximum of 400 shots whichever comes first)
- Ten of the best images from your photo shoot will be selected by photographer Pompo Bresciani, cropped and professionally adjusted, (including minor touch ups) and will be posted online in your own public or password protected gallery. You will then be able to download the ten digital files
- One of the best ten shots will be selected by you, printed at 8×12 and mailed to you via USPS, printing and standard shipping included!
- Included with your printed headshot is an optional white custom border with your name.
Additional prints (not included in the above rates) can be ordered and delivered to anyone from the online gallery. All printing will be done on Kodak Professional Supra Endura VC Digital Paper. The standard archival value is 100 years in home display and 200 years in dark storage.
TO BOOK AND CONFIRM A SHOOT, A NON-REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT IN THE AMOUNT OF $50.00 VIA PAYPAL IS REQUIRED, HOWEVER PLEASE CONTACT ME FIRST FOR SETTING UP A DATE AND LOCATION (Even if you don’t have a PayPal account you will still be able to send the deposit using a credit card).
I look forward to seeing you in my viewfinder!
Headshots Testimonials:
Your headshot must be good. It has already gotten me one audition and one job.
Thank you very much it was a pleasure working with you the pics are “killer”. Nicole
Hi Pompo! You did a wonderful job. I’m really happy with them. Thanks again! Rachel
The photos look great. I really like the color on the one shot that I used for Facebook. Lisa
Pompo! Thanks so much again! Everything turned out wonderfully. Gerald
Thanks for the great shots! Hope to work with you again in the future. Jack
They are great. Thank you! We are honored to be included in your other gorgeous pictures. Tamara
He keeps getting auditions, so it seems to be working! Thank you. Muffin
Pictures of HBO Treme Second Line
To view all the shots and/or purchase high quality prints of the Second Line: www.nolaPIC.com
To view all the shots and/or purchase high quality prints, please visit www.nolaPIC.com
On January 30, 2010 I attended a killer Second Line in Treme, New Orleans. Although it was very cold (for Louisiana standards that is) I had the opportunity to take some killer and unique shots while HBO was filming for their new tv series: Treme. To view all the shots and/or purchase high quality prints, please visit my other site www.nolaPIC.com. and If you are not familiar with HBO ‘s Treme please read below.
If you lived in New Orleans, you would have known by now, that soon another motion pictures will be added to the long list of the many others that have already been shot in the Big Easy. Treme, is the name of the new HBO series, co-created by “The Wire” David Simon, (among its writers is also New Orlenian Tom Piazza) takes place three months after Hurricane Katrina, where the residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians and ordinary New Orleanians try to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane. The series is scheduled to premiere April 11th 2010 on HBO. The video below lives me salivating for more, it says so much without saying much at all…oh and the music…Does Wynton Marsalis ring a bell?!
The following images below were taken on the set of HBO’s Treme first season, and while I wasn’t actually working for HBO or the Discovery Channel (next gallery below Treme’s) I’m displaying them here to show that if I can get the job done without even being a crew member when it’s even harder to be out of the way and yet, manage to cature the action … I can get the job done period .
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Purchasing pictures of New Orleans French Quarter
I just added on my gallery site www.nolaPIC.com quite a few images I have taken in the French Quarter (Jackson Square, St. Louis Cathedral, Bourbon Street and along Canal Street in New Orleans last week. It was rainy and…Beautiful! All fine art prints are also available framed and with non glare glass with or without a mat. The prints of the Streetcars are available in regular formats from 10″ x 15″ to 24″ x 36″ size or in square format of 10″ x 10″ or 20″ x 20″. To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
I have been waiting for these type of moody and gloomy light for quite a while and if you live here, you are well aware that it does not happen that often. I walked in the French Quarter for a long time, I was sore and soaked but as you will see from the photos it was well worth it. Let’s pray for some snow on the South Shore now.
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
Please visit my site www.nolaPIC.com to purchase these high quality fine art prints at a very affordable price. Many more are available on the site, and don’t forget that you can deliver the prints to anyone.
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
Pictures of Holt Cemetery in New Orleans
I just added three new pictures of the Holt cemetery in New Orleans to the Gallery named “New Orleans Cemeteries” on my e-commerce site www.nolaPIC.com! To see more New Orleans photography and purchase high quality prints please visit www.nolaPIC.com
The same gallery contains other images taken at Lake Lawn cemetery and Cypress Grove cemetery in New Orleans. High quality edition prints can be ordered online, framed, matted and with non-glare glass at very affordable prices. Many other different Louisiana subjects are available online as well, including Fine Art pictures of the French Quarter, City Park and Second Lines in New Orleans.
Now…About Holt Cemetery: It’s basically a potter’s field– the final resting place for some of New Orleans poor and indigent peoples for over a century. Because it’s a cemetery for the poor, people are buried in the ground rather than housed in the mausoleums you see throughout the city’s scenic cemeteries. More prosperous dead people rot in fancy tombs, but most of the graves here are personally decorated with bed frames, brightly-painted piles of earthly possessions, wooden headstones, and planter boxes, among other touching displays.
Canon EOS 7D update & new Fine Art Print
I just added this image on my other site nolaPIC.com I took at Lafreniere Park in Metarie, LA at sunset (once I uploaded the shot on Flickr my photostream was on fire with comments!). I love the soft tones, narrow dof and the bokeh of the Canon EF 85mm f1.2L II USM ! The fine art photo is available as a 10″x 10″ or 20″x 20″. To purchase this or other high quality open edition prints please visit: www.nolaPIC.com.
Photo taken with (my favorite lens!) Canon EF 85mm f1.2L II USM 
Canon EOS 7D Available!
October 24, 2009: Finally Amazon is delivering the new Canon EOS 7D! The body only is now available as well as the Canon EOS 7D Kit with the 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Standard Zoom Lens
Get yours while you can and enjoy its killer new features, I could use a better autofocus myself and the 8 fps speed!
