Goals

worm's eye view of cat, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

Although dumping massive amounts of data on Flickr in and of itself accomplishes nothing, knowing that I want to save more this month than I had been saving over the past two years makes me feel, I don't know, photographer-y.
I bought a little three dollar tripod, so now I can stabilize my shots without calling up a deep stillness while lying on the ground (see above) or having a box upon which to put the camera.
I know this is a slow escalation of equipment, where I eventually become one of those people with a lensbaby, just trying to think of tiny things to shoot, but I'm fairly safe for now, as I barely use the stuff currently available to me, to say nothing of what I could get on ebay.

Impressing myself (and nobody else)

Bee Martyr, originally uploaded by lotusduck.

I'm in an awkward phase where I have a chunk of stuff that I've spent a lot of time and drive space on, and I mostly want to make more and learn more, but this would probably also be a good stage to show off, to get some kind of real feedback on what I've done so far. I had a picture in our little art crawl, so that's one thing, but I've got a bunch of stuff that I like, at least, so that's about the place where people are supposed to say hey, hang this shit up in your grocery store.

I have no real idea of how to do macro photography, I use those automatic digital cameras a lot, so figuring things out is often just an unintelligent screaming conversation. I just pointed the camera and took picture after picture at different zooms until one turned out where you can see the bee and the camera promptly died for want of batteries.