Hoboken Studio Tour/Tiny Lab: Money, Money, Money, Mo-ney

Above, you're being watched by Lincoln' eye, from a $5 bill. You can see the cotton fibers of the paper, and even a little shine off the ink where it's adhered to the fibers. Being a bit of a printing geek, I am intrigued by the amount of detail in the line art on this bill. It was shot on request at my exhibit during the Hoboken Studio Tour.

Below are two gold coins with ridged edges that look cool close up. One coin was from South Africa, and one was from the US, and they live together in the wallet of one of my visitors from the Studio Tour.

In case you missed it, here are some photos from my Tiny Lab exhibit the day of the Studio Tour. And if you are curious, here is a slideshow the photos I ultimately hung for that exhibition.

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Hoboken Studio Tour/Tiny Lab: Watch Closely

The watch hands above were on the watch of a visitor to my Tiny Lab exhibit in the Hoboken Studio Tour. I like the dreamy quality of the light and the way the scratches and dust create haloed sparkles throughout the image.

The two photos below are other parts of the watch which have obviously been much loved. The texture of scuffs is great, and I love the little flecks of gold peeking through the layer of silver.

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Assorted Items

Not quite the Great Pyramids of Egypt. Think a little smaller, like something you'd find on your keyring. This item above will get me into my apartment, and lock it up when I leave. I looked at several of my keys before shooting, and decided this one was most interesting within the very small crop area available for me to shoot.

I'm sure you can guess what this is below, kind of a cliché photo actually. A ballpoint pen has been shot many times already, so I'm not covering any new ground here. This particular one is a sparkly green ink gel pen, and you can see evidence of that on the ball and nib there.

I took a look at another writing instrument too. Below is the tip of a metallic gold paint pen. Notice that they can't use a ball (which might get jammed with paint) or a felt tip (which would dry out too easily) and instead created a writing nib from a cylinder of plastic housed in the metal tip.

While these may not be the most interesting Morning Macro photos ever, they are still a good add to the collection of mundane things we can be fascinated by, and find art within.

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Fastenation

I'm sorry I have not posted in about 7 days... we were out of town, and the past few days after getting back have been kinda hectic. But I'll try to keep pace here as we move through the rest of the summer.

Yes I know I spelled "fascination" incorrectly up there. It's a pun, freak. Today, we're looking closely at some fasteners.

Above you see the business end of a typical snap button. Looks a lot like a turbine jet engine, doesn't it? It's mate is below, reminiscent of a manhole in the street.

Below is Velcro™, or something like it. I think the generic name is fastening tape or sumthin'. This particular "fastening tape" was a feature on the of one of my girls' shoes.

I eat zippers. No, the thing below is not a monorail or a tiny tunnel for lower case n's. It's a zipper, silly.

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Up In My Grill

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This guy was a very patient insect, I believe he was a cicada.

I took photos of him from several angles, and like this one a lot. He seems to be staring at us, like the face of a parked truck. He was hanging out on a chain link fence in the middle of summer. The gold flecky stuff on the cicada's "face" is actually tiny little hairs, or something like it. They catch the sunlight in a beautiful gold twinkle.

Shooting things this small is difficult because the depth of field at this level of magnification is very shallow. As you can see in this photo, I only get about a half to a full centimeter of usable focus. This is partially due to my lens setup (a Sigma 18-125 with a Raynox 2.5x macro ring adapter and filter on the front), and partially just the nature of macro photography. Generally speaking, the more light you can get on your subject, the greater amount of depth of field you can gain. But there are limits to everything.

I think I shot this photo with no added flash, so that accounts for part of my problem with the low depth of field.

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