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Hi John! Absolutely love your work. Just one quick question:

I am leaving my job to move to Southeast Asia for the next 8 months. I love photography (specifically landscape) but would really like to get into some more nature and macro photography experience when I am over there. My walkaround lens is a 24-105 f/4, I have a 14mm f/2.8, and a (crappy) 50mm f/1.8 that I currently use for portraits (and wish I could use for Macro...).

If you were me and had $750 to buy a new lens (or two), what would you add to the repertoire?

Body is a full frame Canon.

Absolutely! Thank you.

Do you use any sort of sinus rinse? I use warm saline mixed with budesonide in a neilmed sinus rinse. It helps to remove mucus and debris as well as control inflammation.

I’m no doctor but it could be caused by damage to the olfactory epithelium which is the nerve that controls smell. This could have happened early in your childhood. Or, it could be genetic. Also, there’s a possibility that your sinus cavity has nasal polyps which are benign growths of tissue which can block airflow from hitting the olfactory epithelium. I never knew I had sinus polyps until I took prednisone (an anti-inflammatory steroid) for poison ivy and suddenly I could taste 50x better. I went to an ENT and turns out I had nasal polyps which I got removed.

As somebody who had two polypectomys by the age of 22, intermittent loss of smell and taste is nothing new for me. I’ve been able to manage it since the second surgery with budesonide mixed into a neilmed sinus rinse.

I find it interesting now that the only times I lose my taste / smell is 1) right when I wake up for about 2 minutes and 2) after a long day of drinking. I assume both of these have to do with inflamed blood vessels. Is this correct?