go ahead, snoop around…

I noticed that broccoli has quite a cool texture up close. Hopefully this gets that across.

Seems like I spent all evening doing the washing-up this evening. At least I got pizza and ice-cream out of it, though! Awesome.

Another busy day today, so a relatively unimaginative abstract of a chive flower. I think what I need to start doing is really planning my day, thinking what sort of shot I want to go for, then try to fulfil that shot for the day. If you’re passing and you have anything you use for subject inspiration that you can offer, I’d be very grateful as the only thing I’ve come across is the A-Z of Inspiration thread on the Talk Photography forums.

This really sums up today’s weather. It rained, then some more, then some more so we stayed in and had cookies. I wanted to take some macros but all the bugs are probably in having cookies too. Charlotte went and grabbed this fuschia flower, and water droplets were clinging to it and retaining their shape (there must be a name for this).

I have no idea what the magnification of this is, but the droplet is about half a mm across in real life. It was taken with 64mm of stacked tubes and a Raynox MSN 202 at 70mm. It’s ridiculously difficult not to shake when taking photos at this magnification, I think VR will help one day!