The photo was taken with a Lensbaby Composer and the Lensbaby Macro kit.
The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
I see the same familiar flower everyday yet I really didn’t know much about it until I took a very close look.
There’s a hedge of jasmine that grows just outside our bedroom window. The flowers are so small, no more than an inch from the tip of one petal to the tip of the petal opposite it, that they really don’t make much of an impression unless one sees the flowers in clusters. I was cooking lunch earlier, waiting for one side of my fish and chives frittata to brown so I could flip it over to brown the other side, when I got restless…
Most people, myself included, tend to use the terms close-up photography and macro photography interchangeably. But according to strict definitions, there is a difference. Close-up photography refers to taking magnified images; macro photography means close-up photography using macro lenses. The difference is really more apparent than real because the end result is the same. But, ... (more)
Traditional macro photography is defined as life-size or 1:1 magnification (Joseph Meehan in The Magic of Digital Close-up Photography). But there are ultra modern camera lenses that are capable of 5:1 magnification or more.
Who says you can’t take great macro shots using a point-and-shoot digital camera? Sam took these photos of the sprouting leaves of the banaba tree in our garden using her Olympus MJU 410.





Casa is Spanish for house. CASA is also an acronym for Connie, Antonio, Sam and Alex. We are all surnamed Veneracion. We all love to take photos -- of anything that catches our fancy. It's a family obsession.
This is a journal of how we live, eat, learn, play and have fun. Work? Work is part of playing and having fun. Seriously.

In 2003, a time when I hadn't heard of the term "blog", I started a recipe website at cooking.houseonahill.net using a now defunct content management system that ran on ASP. Ok, never mind the geek talk, I'm sure you're not interested in that. The contents easily multiplied and, in 2004, I moved the food site to pinoycook.net. Always unhappy with the fact that the dot com … »»
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