I'm not thrilled about the idea of walking around a lot, looking for photo opportunities. Instead I went to the dollar store for inspiration (ironically?). I came home with a mirror, a bag of marbles, a box of Panax ginseng extract, and holiday lights for $4 and change.
What made the experiment a little more interesting was that the lens is an old manual-focus 55mm micro-Nikkor f/2.8 that is missing all the parts which allow the camera to control the aperture. It shouldn't even work, but that's the beauty of the Nikon system.
I really like the result I got with the marbles, but the other picture, eh... I'm on to something but still have more work to do. Fun stuff... thought I'd share.
I hope everyone is having a good holiday season thus far