Week 1

f11, 1/180 sec., ISO-200, 100 mm

Week 1 March 4-10, 2012

Sunday, March 4 is the day that I started my newest photography project.  I got this idea into my head that I would take a macro photo a week for 52 weeks.  I have recently completed a 365 project where I took a photo a day for an entire year.  It was a challenge to say the least!  I didn't want to have that kind of stress so that's why I changed it to posting only one pic per week...it's a lot more manageable.

First let me go back and say how thrilled I am to be the proud owner of a real macro lens.  It has been a dream for a long time and I was finally able to make it come true.  I had been looking on line and had a price from Primary Foto here in town.  After a lot of consideration, I got the best deal from Primary, plus I feel it's good to have the local connection.  John was pretty excited when I came into pick up the lens.  We chatted for a while and he gave me some interesting tips about using the lens.

After some practice shots, I was ready to start my project.  Let me say that it's tricky using a macro.  The focus is very fine and a bit of wind can ruin your shot.  I probably will be using a tripod in the not-too-distant future.

My first day out shooting for the project found me on my favourite little walking path near our house.  There was a ton of snow on the ground and luckily for me the path was clear.  The first item I spotted that looked interesting was some grasses off the path.  So I thought I will just step off and do some photos.  As soon as I stepped off the path, I fell into snow up to my knees (one foot).  Then I thought how do I get out of here?  I had to step in with my other foot and then get out.  Crazy stuff!  Once I got out of the deep snow, I thought to myself that I will stick to the path.  Further up, there were some well worn trails into the bush so I went on those.  And that worked out really well as I found a ton of great subjects.  I settled on this photo of some weeds (I don't know what they are really!).