Speaker for the Diodes

Some Recent (and sortakindarecentish) Photos

A partial list of recent Flickr updates that I haven't put in their own journal entries, from both the old and new digital cameras ... Misc stuff I've seen, and one attempt to turn a munged photo into something impressionist:

A couple more macro shots[*]:

And finally, pointing a camera at a camera -- four decades (and a wee adaptor ring) between body and lens, and the bellows rig I use for some of my macro shots (I also use a macro lens, or stick a normal lens backward in front of another normal lens; I have some "close up filters" -- magnifiers that screw onto the front of a lens -- but usually forget they're there). I put the old screwmount lens on because I didn't want to bother removing the adaptor after I'd been using the bellows, and it turned out to still be a pleasant lens to shoot with, even on a camera made forty years later.

I'm still sorting out how I want to use Flickr (and how that use will relate to my journal). There seem to be several sensible ways to go about it.

[*] The insect in the first set of thumbnails isn't technically macro[**]. I chased it all around my ceiling with a 100-300mm lens (what Trix refers to as my "baseball bat lens") at a normal shooting distance and fairly ordinary magnification. Then I cropped away the vast expanse of blank ceiling in the rest of the frame. I eventually trapped it in a plastic cup and flung it out the window (the bug, not the cup) where it seemed happier. I put a few more frames (out of two hundred twenty-two frames that I shot trying to catch it in focus) on Flickr.

[**] It still amuses me that for etymolgical reasons, 'macro' and 'micro' in photography are differences of degree in the same direction rather than being antonyms. (The "largeness" of 'macro' refers to the magnification ratio, and "smallness" of 'micro' refers to the subject.)