How Not to Get Anything Done

This camera of mine came in a set with a second lens, called a macro lens. I didn't know what a macro lens was for and never even took it out of the box in the two or more years I've had it … until yesterday. The instructions it came with were rudimentary, so I had to go on the internet to try to find out how to use a macro lens, and most of the advice boiled down to: learn by trial and error.

So this morning I took my macro lens to the Hobart Historical Society museum and spent an hour and a half taking (and ruining) pictures.

This photo, of organ stops, is one of only a few that weren't entirely ruined.


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And late in the afternoon I simply had to go outside and take pictures of stuff. Took 22 pictures. Only three of them weren't ruined.







I think I should probably put my macro lens back in the box and forget it ever existed.