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Although I’m going to continue to finish up some project and try cooking more…

Dinner! The 3 Step Greek Skillet we made was delicious.

I bought this small desktop clock in a tiny curio / antique shop in Switzerland. Was probably in Zurich itself but could be any of the towns, can’t really remember. I couldn’t exactly not have a Swiss-made clock at home now could I. What caught my eye was the overall design of the clock, but also the intricate patterns on the face. The needles are actually pretty fragile, and there’s no glass or anything to protect them.

This is the macro view from above. I know I should be playing around with the macro setting more often, may be I’ll start a study of small things at home. hmm.

Just having fun with the macro setting on my camera:

Just a handful of (grapevine?) twigs on my windowsill.

I spent a few minutes playing around with my camera, experimenting with taking closeup/macros through a cheap plastic magnifying glass (one of the prizes from my library’s Summer Reading Program last year.)

Surprisingly, this seemed to really help with getting better focus at closer distances. I’ll have to play around with it some more tomorrow. And then on to taking shots through my binoculars!

A little contrast and color work, and you have my Thing for today: Number 7.

Pretty much self-evident. I’m tagging this “Shoot it again” because I’m not satisfied with the results I get doing this as a snapshot - going to have to  take some time and do it right.