Yeah, well, about a week ago I had a complete d'oh moment with a stupid realization.

For a long long while I've been softly lamenting the "fact" that my camera didn't have a Macro setting / couldn't take Macro shots... and... I've found that (if I didn't already know) I kind of Like doing Macro shots and have been trying to take a number of Macro shots... with what I Thought was a non-Macro camera, trying to focus without the setting and getting blur shot after blur shot after blur shot.

A week ago, during a celebratory/special dinner, I gave my camera to my sister across the table to take a picture of her dessert and she was offhandedly asking/commenting:

(while she's taking the camera)
"your camera doesn't have a Macro setting / can't do Macro, right?"

"no, but I still haven't tried that camera unlock thing that you sent to / told me about ages ago. () I keep forgetting to _{(and would have to look for it again now because we both don't remember where it was)}."

and Then she notices and realizes that the camera Does have a Macro setting.


I am/was... Completely clueless as to where I should be looking and what it'd look like, and in my defense the camera doesn't tell me what it was -- it assumes that the photographer would know what the icon/logo meant (which I don't/didn't) and uses only that on the lcd screen, while I was looking for the word "Macro" or something like how the Auto mode is indicated on the top dial (though maybe not in green), which was also where I was looking for the "Macro setting" by the way. (I didn't know it was a setting that could be / is used on top of different modes, it never really occurred to me to think of that.)


So... now I'm split and scattered across taking Macro shots wherever I might think I spy a potential shot and trying to remember the ideas I had and/or the shots I tried to take before this, lamenting the shots that I missed like spilt powder on a black hair clip, and oh I do take non-macro pictures still too.


I don't know if you'll be seeing any (of the new pictures) here though, so... I apologize for dragging you back to my gallery for nothing. I've been away from deviantART and not been around much since the last big interface change, and I only touch on the site Grazing it only softly every now and again. I'm by no means back. (Sorry.) But I Am taking pictures again... I just don't know if I'm taking anything shareworthy and if shareworthy I'm not sure I'll post them here...

I hope everyone else has been and is well in my absence.