Sometimes you don’t have to go far for photographic inspiration. I was drinking coffee on my patio this morning watching the Tulips bloom, and thought “damn those are pretty.” Took me a while before I actually went upstairs to get the camera though, and I also did something that I hadn’t done in a loooong time; I shot film of them too! Some of you may say “what the hell is film?” I have no idea who processes film these days for somewhat of a reasonable price, but I did it anyway. It was kinda fun getting back to where it all started with me, using my Dad’s Pentax K1000 which is manual everything; manual shutter speed, manual aperture, manual frame advance. Luckily, it has a built in light meter, so I didn’t have to go completely old school. But it made me slow down on the composition and make sure all the settings were correct before I clicked. Also made me appreciate my outdated Canon digital SLR quite a bit. For those uninitiated, macro photography refers to super closeups, and one of the most common subjects of macro photography are flowers. I have shot many macros of flowers, mosses, lichens and is one of my favorite types of photography. So here are the digital results, unfortunately I will not be able to post the film results here…
