Weird Seedy Flowery Things

Violet and I made it our mission today to find tiny things at the park that we could shoot in macro. So we searched through rocks and leaves and flowers, and found the strange thing above.

It appears to be a strange seed case or flower bud or something. We like that it is fuzzy. It's actually quite small, which made examining it at the park a little difficult. But we were pretty sure it would be cool when we photographed it. When magnified, it looks like a ball with bed head.

I'm going to try to include a small reference image for my macro shots, as you can see to the left. This will help you to get a better idea of the size of the things we are looking at close up.

Below is another photo of the weird bed head ball.

Then, we found something that looked like the bed head ball, cracked open and blooming. I don't know if it actually is a next-stage bed head ball or what, but that's what our imagination has decided. You can see this below and judge for yourself! Here's the reference image of the weird bed head ball flower, to the left.

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Icy Beer Frost

I had placed a beer in the freezer last night to cool it off quicker, then forgot about it. Took it out tonight, completely frozen. The bottle immediately began to frost over, so I shot it in macro.

In the photo above, you see the script "s" at the end of the Sam Adams' debossed in glass on the bottle, covered in condensation frost. Below is another shot of the side of the bottle. Below that is a 100% crop detail of the photo, so you can see the ice crystals that make up the frost.

To the naked eye, the frost appeared to be a uniform and smooth matte white coating. In macro/micro, the frost appears to be irregular and lumpy, though I had expected it to be a little more crystalline.

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I'd like to order a Tab, please

I found this on the dresser. It's the plastic tab from a store price tag which had been removed from recently purchased clothing. I've posted it today because even this most pedestrian little item is interesting to see magnified.

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The Fabric of our Lives™

Had a request/suggestion for a macro/micro photo (yay!, thanks Peta). This is a cotton ball, all made up of gnarly little strands. You can see that while the cotton strands above appear white, they are actually clear like cellophane noodles.

Below is another shot of the cotton, showing the clear strands a little better. And below that, a crop of the center section of this photo, which clearly shows (no pun intended) that the strands are not white. Rather, these twisty fibers reflect light on many curving and bending facets, making them appear white to the naked eye.

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Squishy Foam!

This is foam, close-up; the soft stuff used to protect fragile things. I use this as padding for one of my lenses in a small hard case. It looks grey when viewed with your eyes. At this level of magnification, we see the beautiful little prismatic bubbles that make up the structure of the foam. Cool!

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Peach Fuzz, and the Knife to Slice it

That's pretty much all I got to say about that. You've got some of your basic peach fuzz up there (V says, "I wike da futhz"), and your basic sharpened chef's knife edge below. If you look close enough, the little fuzz strands are clear.

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Money is for Nuthin' and the Chicks for Free

I will pay you to "follow" my blog. OK, not really, but here's some money in macro.

These are two macro photos of a nickel, looking HUGE! I like how the details in the rim of the coin above makes it appear to be carved from rock. And the shot below looks like mercury, teased into a form to mimic trees.

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Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board

The delicate features of a feather. These are the tiny strands that interlock with eachother like velcro to form the uniform surface of the feather. With time and use, those little hairy strands get worn off and lose their strength, and the feather gets fluffy, just in time to be molted.

I like how the photo below bears a resemblance to the teeth of a comb.

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Kitschy Sunday

These are some facial features of the girls' Polly Pocket, Arial. She's a small and attractive mermaid/human. I like the kitschiness of these photos.

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Hardware Day!

A wood screw tip.

Today, I shot some hardware. You can see some optical distortion in the photo below, as the screw threads seem to bend inward the further they get from the center of my lens. This is an artifact of my janky stack of lenses, and would not be present were I using a far better lens.

Another screw tip, slightly distorted.

Below, not suspension bridge cable, rather the frayed end of thin-gauge picture hanging wire.

Picture hanging wire.

A nail tip.

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Flower Power Extra!

Above is a flowering bud from a bouquet in our living room. The bouquet has started out as a deep grape color, and is now slowly changing to white. It's quite bizarre. The flower above was about 5mm across. I like how the folds of the folded petals make a star-like pattern.

Our next photo, above, is a shot of baby's breath, up close. Typically, we see these tiny, half-centimeter flowers garnishing bunches of flowers in a bouquet. Here, it is a monster bloom, sparkling in the light. Below is another view of the baby's breath flower.

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Of Belly Buttons and Straw Hats

First of all, I wanted to enlighten my devoted audience as to who they are. Below are the top 10 web searches that send visitors to my site:

1.	worlds biggest belly button
2.	worlds largest belly button
3.	belly button fuzz
4.	adam saynuk
5.	biggest belly button in the world
6.	bubble ornaments
7.	largest belly button
8.	pieromainea
9.	the worlds biggest belly button
10.	world's biggest belly button

So, who knew there was such a huge demand for information about belly button size and the fuzz which such a belly button can collect? Should I be offended that "worlds biggest belly button," "worlds largest belly button," and "belly button fuzz" are more popular reasons to hit my photoblog than I am. And I'm a bit surprised that not one of my top ten popular keyword searches has anything to do with macro photos or photography at all!

FYI, this is the post these belly button fans find in their journey here.

The strange world of Google. Now, on to the macro photos, not that all you belly button-obsessed people care anyway.

Here are two photos of straw hats, up close and personal. One, Sarah likes, the other will be returned to the store from whence it came. Interesting how different their weaves are. One, shiny and smooth, the other rough and scratchy looking.

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Will I Stamen or Will I Go?

Shot these pollen pods on Violet's weird flower thing. The weird flower thing is beautiful in regular size, and just as cool in microscopic.

You can see how much is out of focus in this shot; it is frustrating shooting tiny stuff because the usable depth of field is so shallow. In this photo, I estimate it was around 2 or 3 mm. {CORRECTION: I actually believe now that my usable depth is more like half a millimeter, or in microscopic talk, 500 microns}

I've already stopped down to f32, so there's not much more I can do. While I'd like to have more elements in the photo in focus, that doesn't seem possible without digitally stacking a group of photos.

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Back to Say Hi

Seriously, what happened to me!?!?

I realize that the three of you who used to check this site regularly have probably left never to return. At least, you are standing with your back to me, pretending I'm not, uh, posting.

And you have a right to be mad at me. I too have disappointed me. And not for the first time.

So, here are some flowers to make up for the time we've been apart. Please rip them to pieces dramatically and throw them to the floor. But first consider how cool they look. This was shot by removing my 50mm lens from the camera body, and holding it out away from the camera, and tilting a little for some distortion. What results is something like a heavily distorted macro photo.

I've decided to explore ideas that stretch my imagination in photography... the above being one of them. I kind of like the touch that making an imperfect photo brings to the observer. Digital photos are engineered to be perfect, and so I will start creating imperfect photos so counter. Why should I do what anybody else can do, and is doing?

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