After reading a tip on the Internet, I used an old 55mm camera lens for taking this photo. How to set it up needed thought but a makeshift method worked OK.

The screw was placed on a piece of paper inside a slightly tapered tumbler. The lens was reversed (small end nearest the screw) and lowered into the tumbler. Because of the tumbler's tapered shape, the lens rested about an inch above the screw and paper. A tumbler was used in order to get plenty of daylight on the screw.

The ordinary digital camera was on a tripod looking down through the reversed lens (about 4 inches away). A slight amount of zoom on the macro setting produced the photo. The unwanted parts of the shot were cropped away in a photo editing program. The screw is sort that holds the sides on a computer, a little under a centimetre long I think:



If this method was used regularly, it might be worth making a stand for the lens.

Wow! Amazing stuff TW!

This was looking westward just before sunset this evening.

Nothing could be fresher than the fish in our market. As you pass many of the stalls , live fish jump out of their bowls and high into the air. Here is a busy and incredibly clean stall with plenty of choice.

I'm really enjoying the Photo-A-Day threads. I just love getting glimpses of everybody's lives; even the mundane is interesting.

Before reading this month's thread, I had no idea what a "macro" setting on a camera was. I now find that I have one on my camera. I've been playing around with it but my results aren't very good yet. Unfortunately, the manual that came with the camera is not at all helpful.

This is all that the manual says about the Macro setting: "When the menu is not showing, you can use the MACRO/DOWN button to take macro pictures. The distance ranges are shown below. Press the Macro button until the desired macro mode indicator displays on the LCD monitor."

Notice they don't even tell you what a Macro setting is for!

When I pressed the Macro button, it turned the Macro setting on. When I pressed it again, it turned it off. That was it! I was unable to locate any "desired macro mode indicator displays on the LCD monitor" (whatever that means).

I really hate companies that don't write good user manuals.

My camera is a Samsung Digimax S800.

Anyone got any tips for me about using the Macro setting?

You could look in the site that Jill suggested in the 'macro' thread., it may help.
http://drscavanaugh.org/digitalcamera/macro.htm

Thanks, ren, I did look at that link previously. It makes a bit more sense now I read it a second time.

It still peeves me that my camera has lots of settings but the user manual gives very little useful information about what they do or how they work. I think I'm going to have to enrol in a course to learn how to use it.

I've been playing with the night setting on my camera. This is Fremantle Prison at night. It is no longer used as prison and is now a tourist attraction with a fascinating history. They have a huge convict data base.

I looked up my husband's name in the data base and found he had a namesake listed (no relation, however). His English namesake was sentenced to transportation to Australia for ten years. His crime: the possession of house-breaking tools. There was no record of the date of sentencing but he got his freedom in 1873.

I've been reading about your camera MG and it seems you don't have to use a separate macro setting. The lens will automatically focus from 5 centimetres away to infinity. Since it is an 8.1 megapixel camera, it should give good macro detail from 5 cm away.

Remember that you can always crop away the parts of the photo that you don't want before shrinking the size of the remainder (the part you want to display). This will give much closer detail than if you resize the entire image.

TW - your wife has exceptional skills. The Renoir is awesome!
Your macro computer screw shows great skills too.

Ren - I am now hungry for fish

Our redcurrants had a visitor...

Ugh, I hate moths! Do you think your moth is related to this one Mada?

I just looked out of my window and my lawn definitely needs cutting. I didn't do it Tuesday and since then it has been wet and warm hence the grown. Those are the ones with hairy leaves, not normal dandilions.

Otherwise it would have been a vacuum cleaner touch eh, TW?

This is what I see if I go into a room in my house and shut the door...

Sue, I think my moth (sounds like it's a pet or something ) might be related to the one you mentioned. I wish I knew more about the subject, to be able to tell you what type/species it is .

Cinnam0n - Great shot! In my house the 'view' is the same but black in color .

I'm not too fond of Moths either Sue, however last summer we saw what we thought was a hummingbird just as the sun was going down. It wasn't a hummingbird but a hummingbird moth. I'd never seen one before but it was huge and hovered just like a hummingbird. I didn't want to go out and get closer to it that's for sure. I only found out what it was by searching the net.

Photo for the day is of one of my roses, they are really coming out now. This is a Morden Blush Rose, developed here in Manitoba to withstand our harsh climate. Morden is a town in Manitoba that has a government research center that develops plants, mostly grains that are disease and weather resistant.



This Rose's color depends on the temperature when the buds are forming. If it's cool they are pinker, if it's warm they tend to be less so.

I love Ren's pics of the markets in Hong Kong.

This is the restored 15th-century Manor Barn at Bexhill.

My roses came out today too! I looked out the window, and there they were about seven of them, with plenty more buds. Unlike argus, I have no idea of the variety - they came with the house.

Tom, that house shows how little designs changed over the years, as I was in hampstead Garden Suburb today as every Friday, and that is the basis of the early 20th century arts and crafts style, and you'll see many similar buildings there built 500 years after this. Like car engines once you get a prototype it can often become fixed indefinitely and as houses go this is a pretty good design.

Having a memory like a heffalump, a while back someone asked for photos of red phone boxes. The fact these were replaced over 20 years ago made it a tough job, except in HGS (as we call it) they are a historic area so exempted from red box removal. This is what could be a tiny village green and lies opposite the back of a golf club.



As you can see, in a small patch there's a phone box, bench, bin, salt container for icy roads and electricity transformer. I think the little hoppa bus is often hailed here as well.

Hmm,

I think the big prize was for a picture of a Tardis. Any old blue police boxes still hanging around?

This is a very small part of Ladder Street in Central. As you see. it suffered in the recent rainstorms and the men are working on it, but there is business as usual. The stalls are all like this, perched on the steps of this , a long long flight of old stone steps. Fascinating.

Harumph. Last week this view was of a lovely little orchard across the street. Yesterday there were large trucks over there chopping down trees and creating massive piles of dirt. This morning (already!) there's this! There's certainly an invasive (not to mention speedy) element to "progress", yes? Oh, and I am especially fond of that attractive placement of the port-a-potty, too ..