macros

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Ice Storm

January 19, 2012 Macrocosm

Macros of the ice crystals on our windows this morning. * Shot with my Panasonic FZ50 bridge camera plus a Raynox-250 snap-on macro lens. Photographed in Seattle, during the first snow storm of 2012.

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A Jumper

April 26, 2010 Arachnids/Spiders

This Red-Backed Jumping Spider was in “I’m outta here” mode before my lens even moved in.

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Faces in Food

April 23, 2010 Studies in Vagueness

If I could find more faces in food, this would be a regular series.

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Drop

April 12, 2010 Photography

Droplet adorning a tree branch on April’s last rainy day.

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Studies in Vagueness: Don’t Play With Your Food

October 10, 2009 Food

I grew up with parents scarred by World War II, so you can imagine the [deserved] admonitions we got with respect to wasting food. I used to cringe when Letterman dropped watermelons off New York city rooftops. Frozen turkey bowling . . . well that one completely busted my little paradigm. But food, in all [...]

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Studies in Vagueness: The Mock Snail

August 20, 2009 Sea Scale Snail

This title, The Mock Snail caused the tiniest bit of confusion on Flickr. He’s a real snail. It’s just that the psychedelic tone rendered by my Raynox 150 lens inspired a Lewis Carroll reference.

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Bees and Their Fennel

August 11, 2009 Bay Area

It never fails that fennel is the best medium for my bee photography — even if it does render consistently yellow backdrops for my bee images…

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Studies in Vagueness: Everyday Translucence

July 24, 2009 Edibles

I was filling up the compost pail and decided the items on my fridge deserved a photographic tribute for the good works they do.

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Spring in Micro (and Macro)

April 27, 2009 Photography

My lens life felt banal this week, so I moved in and went macro. Super macro. I call it my “bug lens” but it’s actually a set of two lenses which go by the names of Raynox DCR-150 and Raynox DCR-250. They’re $40 gifts from macro heaven that snap on to the lens of my [...]

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