Topic: Since the weather is getting cold...

[Frank in JC]

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

[Krispy D]

beautiful Frank!  The wife will love these, she's the photog in in the family.  I hope these can inspire her to think outside the box like you did.  Do you have a web site?

[Shawn]

cool

[Frank in JC]

beautiful Frank!  The wife will love these, she's the photog in in the family.  I hope these can inspire her to think outside the box like you did.  Do you have a web site?

Thanks, I appreciate that.  I keep meaning to compile everything and at least put them up on Flickr... but no, sorry. 

My photography improved when I figured out it's all about the light.  A camera doesn't record "things," only the light transmitted, reflected, or generated by them.  I know it sounds trivial if not obvious, but that idea alone helped me a lot.

[stirinthesauce]

yes, very nice images. 

[rowjimmytour]

Very cool indeed and +t for your art.
Peace

[phanophish]

Nice stuff frank.  I could totally see these on a site like iStock photo.  Makes me want to go play with some stuff like this.

[Tim]

those are great shots, thanks for sharing

[Frank in JC]

Thanks everybody.

I credit the uh... ginseng.