Playing Chess on the Nile

Playing Chess on the Nile (Copyright (cc) 2008 B Kahuna)

LUXOR, Egypt -- A game of chess played between Kahuna and the Baron in the lounge of a cruise ship on the Nile illustrates the disturbingly narrow depth of field possible with Canon's highly non-bogus EF 50mm 1:1.8 II prime lens. The Baron won the game by means of surreptitiously retiring his opponent's pieces from the board while Kahuna was otherwise occupied with His camera.

Captured in sepia on 3^rd November 2007 with a Canon EOS 30D on aperture priority (f/1.8 in all but the last photograph, which is at f/2.0).