Macro Monday, Week 2

Here are a few more macro shots of my coin collection; with the exception of the US penny, above, they all date from the 1950s or before. I included the penny because I had never seen one depicting Abraham Lincoln sitting on a log, reading a book, until I ran across it the other day — I think it makes […]

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Fields of teasel

When I encountered these dried pods at Anderson Marsh State Historic Park I mistook them for milk thistle; it wasn’t until I did a little online research that I learned they’re actually teasel. Although they produce very pretty flowers, they are invasive and tend to crowd out the native plants. According to the website Botanical Accuracy (linked above), the teasel […]

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Macro Monday, Week 1

Welcome to Macro Monday! My idea is to alternate my future Monday posts between macro photography and re-scanned images of older Memory Monday slides, most of which I’ve shared previously. As I searched for some macro inspiration, I quickly realized that I lack the equipment to produce anything like the really amazing macro images already on the internet. BUT where […]

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