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I am thinking that purchasing my Canon 135mm f/2 L lens was well worth the financial sacrifice. I used it, on a 5D, at f/2, to discretely capture an available-light image of my wife feeding her elderly (age 92) father. The light level was very low, so only a fast lens plus high ISO could have captured the moment, and the focal length was perfect for the distance. I did not have time to compose the image according to any artistic rules; just a quick shoot, but a convex mirror in the background made the image quite interesting, by accident. I was asked to erase the image, but my wife and her sister did not realize I had actually shot twice. I erased a badly blurred image, and kept the better one. (This was a few weeks ago.)
The image is not a great one, but it will be OK for private family viewing, and has suddenly become quite precious, because my father-in-law passed away yesterday, early in the afternoon, and this is our final image of him. The family is now quite glad I did not erase the image.
My father-in-law lived an interesting life. A descendant of the composer Dvorak, he was an accomplished violinist, whose career was postponed by World War II. He resisted the Nazi occupation at the espionage level, and after the war, had to flee the communists. In a series of events more amazing than some spy stories in books or on film, he hid with relatives in Czechoslovakia, then evaded on foot into the American sector of occupied Germany. He nearly died of disease in a displaced-persons camp, and later emigrated to the USA, where he managed to re-start his musical career, playing for two major symphonies from the 1960s to 1980s.
Of course, I cannot share this image on-line. Even if I knew how to post
images, this was a very private moment. My wife's family shuns publicity, so I am not going to mentions names, either, at least for now.
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Canon 7D/5D/40D/1D2N; Nikon F6, FM3A, & Coolpix A; Canon 40mm Pancake, 135L, 50L, 35L, pre-II 50mm 1.8, 100mm 2.8L Macro, 10-22mm EF-S, 28-135 EF, 400mm 5.6L; Nikkor 50mm 1.2 AI-S, 50mm 1.4G, 50mm 1.8D, 16mm 2.8D Fisheye, 180mm 2.8D, 100-300mm 5.6 AI-S; Tokina 17mm & 100mm 2.8 Macro
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Pretty interesting here but finding some vegetarian food isn't that easy. 
