Somehow, these months keep ending, which someone should be looking into – I’m sure this isn’t a good thing. But while it’s happening, we’ll at least keep noting this occurrence (until we don’t, anyway) with the month-end abstract. The first was not actually intended to be an abstract as such, but it worked out quite well as one, plus it looks cool. Or at least I think so, which tells you more than you ever need to know about me.
This was, naturally, while messing about with the new(ish) Sigma 180mm macro, and hopefully I don’t need to tell you what this is; it’s not like I’ve featured much else for the past few weeks. What I do need to tell you is how small this is, the frame spanning about 20-22mm vertically – that’s less than an inch for all the Murrikins that can’t handle metric. Meanwhile, just soak in all that scaly detail.
The second entry is the most recent, taken just before my self-imposed deadline for the abstract posts, which means this is actually posting late (not like anyone is sitting there refreshing the page at 1 AM in anticipation, but if you’re gonna set a schedule, you keep to it, right?)
I don’t have to tell anyone what this is, either, and it’s more of a portrait than an abstract, except for the context. I’ve had a crystal ‘gazing ball’ for some time now, intending to use it when the landscapes or macro subjects were right, and decided to do some experiments tonight/this morning. This was an exercise in frustrations all by itself, which I’ll get into later, but while attempting to get a minuscule green treefrog (Dryophytes cinereus) to remain posed within the field of view of the ball, instead the little bugger leapt away everywhere, including onto the ball itself, and then had the nerve to wave at me cheekily while doing so.
That’s what fits the bill for the end of the month, anyway. I’ll be back later on with a few more pics, and to go into greater detail regarding these experiments. Just you wait.