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the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Vancouver, 2002.07.09

Today I made a wondrous discovery; reverse-lens photography.

if I hold my lens up to the mount of my camera backwards, so that the accessory threads are against the mount, I can take shots of things that are very tiny and very very close. I used my discovery to photograph the cracks in the skin of my knee, some pollen on flowers, and a tiny spider (which eluded me). I understand there are adapters for this sort of thing, so you don't have to hold the lens in place. I can't wait.

rand()m quote

When destiny comes to a man from outside, it lays him low, just as an arrow lays a deer low. When destiny comes to a man from within, from his innermost being, it makes him strong, it makes him into a god…

—Hermann Hesse