My Navel

Friday saw a disappointing volume of belly button fluff. I was wearing a new top (brushed cotton) and thought that the new fabric might yield a nice crop of lint. Maybe it fell out when I wasn’t looking, I had a busy day on Friday and I wasn’t really checking my navel’s progress through the day. The sample I extracted at bedtime was miniscule. I was so annoyed I didn’t even take a photo of it, I just popped it in the jar.

Saturday and Sunday saw me wearing a fleece top. It is fairly new and I thought that it might shed fibres which would work their merry way to my belly button. Again I am wrong though. With two days wear, all I got was this…

Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate 10mm of multi-hued belly button fluff, but this specimen is a little flat. Not at all what I was hoping for.

This picture was taken with my +10 close-up lens. I have got the hang of getting a greater depth of focus but I have to crank the aperture as small as it will go; inevitably this needs a lot of light to give a reasonable image.

I have been looking online for extension tubes with a Pentax KA mount so that I can keep the automatic functions of my camera when taking macro shots. I don’t mind the manual focus bit, but my main lens doesn’t have manual aperture settings, so I would be a little stuck.

I have been tidying the kitchen a lot today (it was in a bit of a state) and have been interspersing the boredom with taking pictures of things in the kitchen. Most of it was quite crap and has subsequently been deleted. Here are a few of the better ones…

I have been quite getting into my photography stuff of late. I even ordered a cheap tripod and a couple of lens filters (polarising and UV).

Anyway, I need to sleep, I have to catch an early train tomorrow.

This entry was posted on Monday, January 14th, 2008 at 12:07 am and is filed under Uncategorized.