Macro shot of a flower.

I decided to get another macro shot this year, as I’ve taken one before and figured this project could use two before week 52.

A tiny ant crawls across Chris' driveway.

In a somewhat last-ditch attempt for a photo this week, I surprised myself by getting a photo I am quite pleased with. I went and sat on the driveway with my poor man’s macro setup– one lens on regular, and then another lens focused to infinity turned around and held onto the front element of the attached one. Not the best or most controllable macro, and obviously there’s lots of issues with vignetting, but it is a technique that can produce usable images. It helps if your subject is less than active. I think this ant was alive, but not feeling too hot and wasn’t long for the world.

The three phases of Valentine's Day cookie baking.

Shawna made some Valentines cookies this weekend. They were fun to make, but more fun to eat.

I enjoyed looking up how to write down “love” in every language, and then trying to copy the foreign symbols into icing writing. Not the easiest thing in the world, but cool enough to try. If you want to see a better image so you can read all the neat words, click here. See what languages you can identify!