A lizard holds onto a blade of grass.

I know I recently took a photo of a lizard (a month ago) but that one was taken with my phone. This one’s with my real camera! And I ran out of ideas, so a backyard lizard is a fallback. We’ll try to spice the photos up with some people or something next week.

A butterfly prepares for a incoming landing on a flower.

This weekend was fun– I went camping, and there were lots of neat photographic opportunities. Even an alligator! But my favorite I shot was this butterfly coming in for a landing.

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.