The more shots I take with the macro lens the more I realise I need to blow the item clean before taking the pics.

DUST SPECKS!!! They never were a problem previously! At first when taking closeup shots like this the shadow of the camera lens was blocking the light. And it's not like I have a proper lightbox to shoot product shots. Then the semi pro reminded me that my flash unit can be fired wirelessly thus all I needed to do was to find the right place to put it so it can provide enough light for the shot.

Interesting...

A new version of the Deep Zoom Composer has be released by the Expressions team, downloading it now to see what changes I need to make to my Deep Zoom exporter.

Ooooo... look, they have a prebuilt library now... hmmm, guess that more or less would make my program useless but we'll see after I finish downloading it.

That's the question which I ask my wife and my mother sometimes. Case in point :-

So there I was reading the morning papers, WZ was playing outside in the yard with Grandpa when there came a loud BOOM sound from outside. I rushed out to see what happened then I see two guys walking from a Maroon Land Cruiser, and looking up towards a tree in front of my house. One of them was holding a rifle. I don't know what they were shooting.. probably crows, but they left as suddenly as they came.

Not suddenly enough though... The problem with shooting crows is that, even though you're firing UPWARDS, dude.. remember.. your bullets have to come down somewhere eventually!

Well, now that I have a macro lens, I can shoot really small things really up close and not crop. Like this shot of the Mini SD card + reader.

So much detail until you can see the insertation marks (click to see the larger version)

Now I just need to constantly remind myself.. my collection is complete, I don't need anything else, and the box is full anyway.