It's enjoyable to see our universe from new perspectives, and a good one is up close. With a set of inexpensive extension tubes a favorite standard lens becomes a fantastic macro lens, bringing small things extremely close. Those are mainboard mounting screws. They're smaller then your little fingernail.
I went back through my catalog and grabbed some of my favorite animal shots. I don't often go out specifically for wildlife, but I've had some lucky chance encounters while carrying my Canon.
For a second time we were invited to camp with some friends near Albany, Minnesota during the local Pioneer Days festival in September. It's full of really amazing machinery and period agricultural and industrial demonstrations.
We had a great day at the 2011 Minnesota State Fair. I mostly photographed the kids on rides. Here are a few odds and ends that caught my eye.
Jolene, Evan, Adrien and I took a walk at Quarry Park. It turned out to be a good day for macro stuff.
It was never really about us
but I admit I was uneasy
about being accepted, and permitted to honor
The young man who wasn't the first
to die, a mother's third son
and the second she's lost.