Procrastinet

Quotes from Vacation

filed under: Idle Chatter

We're down with my folks in NC for a week. A few quotes at random:

Me: Hey, hysterical monkey!

Max: Yes, Daddy?

And, while floating in the lake, holding Max and barely supported by pool noodles (as Lisa says, maybe it's time to lay off the Ho-Hos):

Me: I can't do that right now, buddy, I have to concentrate on keeping us afloGLUBBLEBARGLE!

I've also developed a new hobby/obsession: reverse macro photography. I had read about it for a while now but didn't have a spare lens sitting around, until I found my dad's old 55mm 2.8f lens sitting in their crawlspace. When you hold one lens backwards against the camera's lens, it makes for an extreme close-up lens with razor-thin depth of focus (and, in this case, wicked vignetting).

So all week I've been transporting things to my parents' black cooktop to take closeups. My favorite series so far is the Pooh figures:

I also took pictures of my old Matchbox cars, and a set of Russian nesting dolls.

Posted by rjt at August 16, 2006 08:45 AM