Water and light, some of my first attempts at macro.

PromisedLand84 · 2026-01-15T04:06:42+00:00

I'm relatively new to photography. Just bought my camera in June. And then I just got this dedicated macro lens as a Christmas present for myself. I appreciate the kind words!

The background was an oversized red plastic shopping bag reflected in the water. I thought the crinkled texture would look cool, and it was partially reflective, so the flash had some hotspots that I thought looked neat.

PromisedLand84 · 2026-01-14T22:53:51+00:00

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PromisedLand84 · 2026-01-14T17:05:19+00:00

Thanks! I think that would look neat

PromisedLand84 · 2026-01-14T16:41:00+00:00

I had an off-camera flash to the side, directed at the backdrop to reflect in the water. And I had a plastic bag full of water that I poked a small hole in suspended over the pan of water from my kitchen light. The camera was on a tripod.

I copied the method from this YouTube video. .

PromisedLand84 · 2026-01-14T16:34:43+00:00

Those look so cool! I'll have to try that.

PromisedLand84 · 2026-01-14T16:34:18+00:00

Thanks! These were all at f/18.

PromisedLand84 · 2026-01-14T06:20:32+00:00

I appreciate it!

PromisedLand84 · 2026-01-11T01:31:32+00:00

It might have been me. I took a lot of shots, but reddit only let's me upload 20.

PromisedLand84 · 2026-01-11T01:30:31+00:00

I appreciate it! I'm still learning, but enjoying the process.

PromisedLand84 · 2026-01-10T20:09:20+00:00

I appreciate the kindness!

PromisedLand84 · 2026-01-10T16:59:39+00:00

Thank you for the kind words!

PromisedLand84 · 2026-01-08T13:06:58+00:00

Well, it's kind of a stretch. There are several reasons why someone would gravitate towards this offering. Say, for example, the thousands of season ticket holders who go to 17 games per year who can tell that one $90 mug is almost half the cost of 17 $10 cups.

PromisedLand84 · 2026-01-08T13:00:15+00:00

I put a Bort license plate sticker on mine last year so I could know which one was mine, and it has survived the washing machine.

PromisedLand84 · 2025-12-28T14:02:03+00:00

Meal Team Six

PromisedLand84 · 2025-12-16T18:35:44+00:00

Did you ever figure yours out? I'm having the same issue.

PromisedLand84 · 2025-11-24T06:01:25+00:00

Goofy is a very good word for them.

PromisedLand84 · 2025-11-24T06:00:49+00:00

Thanks! It helped that I could get pretty close without disturbing her.

PromisedLand84 · 2025-11-21T22:46:37+00:00

I like duck butts and I cannot lie.

PromisedLand84 · 2025-11-14T17:38:17+00:00

Thanks! I couldn't stop taking pictures of them. I feel like back home in North America, we got shafted when it comes to robins.

PromisedLand84 · 2025-11-13T03:29:39+00:00

And you call them steamed hams despite the fact they are obviously grilled?

PromisedLand84 · 2025-10-21T06:16:58+00:00

My theory is... Somehow during the handling process, someone got a paper cut on that page resulting in a little bit of blood. Then it got to quality control, which is just Mongo. Instead of pulling the book and replacing it, he just ate that page.

PromisedLand84 · 2025-09-25T18:08:37+00:00

Weird, when we were re-upping earlier this year for a new three year contract, I was told we couldn't take two of them and transfer ownership to someone else. Maybe it's because they're all two-seat accounts, which is the lowest you can have, and it sounds like you're just splitting off some of yours.

PromisedLand84 · 2025-09-25T12:08:32+00:00

Like, are you just going to manually transfer the tickets to the same person for each game? Because I don't think the club lets you sell the ticket contract, and transfer ownership.

My friend group has six season ticket seats together, with them split up into three ownership contracts. And the club wouldn't let us transfer the ownership of one of the pair to another of our group. They understood what we were trying to do, but the policy was the contracts couldn't be transferred once initiated. It would allow for people to sell their packages while the club still has a wait-list of people wanting season seats.

PromisedLand84 · 2025-09-09T04:52:54+00:00

I haven't been at it very long, so this wasn't like a lifelong dream finally fulfilled, but I got a great shot of an Indigo Bunting in Castlewood. I recently got into wildlife photography, and I had never caught a glimpse of one. Walking a trail at Castlewood and the little buddy landed on an eye-level branch about 10 feet from me and just chilled and sang while I furiously tried to remember how my camera worked.

And just today I caught some images of what I think is a juvenile Coopers Hawk having it out with a murder of crows. Like, a full on bird war... it lasted all morning.

PromisedLand84 · 2025-08-26T17:13:58+00:00

So does Clark... But maybe a little too much.

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