I have been in a woeful slump creatively for the past couple of months. Maybe more like six months to a year! For however long it’s been, I’ve felt powerless to create because of my ill health and lack of mobility. I can’t go out on photo walks. I can’t hike. I can’t “get the shot” I want when I want it. So I looked longingly at my gear and watched YouTube videos and Instagram photos of what other people were out creating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I finally said something about it to my husband, and he replied with only a tiny bit of exasperation, “I keep telling you, honey, macro! You should be using that great macro lens of yours!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, that was just the prompt I needed. I got out my EF 100mm f\/2.8L Macro IS USM<\/a> and my Canon EOS R6<\/a> plus adapter and decided to just start shooting whatever I could see from my desk. Turned out there was plenty of inspiration within arms length!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are (some of) the things I can see from my desk:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I expect to be continuing my macro studies for the next while… we learn by doing, so I must do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been in a woeful slump creatively for the past couple of months. Maybe more like six months to a year! For however long it’s been, I’ve felt powerless to create because of my ill health and lack of mobility. I can’t go out on photo walks. I can’t hike. I can’t “get the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[628,107,436,156],"tags":[687,34],"class_list":["post-40403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adopted-joy","category-art","category-macro","category-photography-art","tag-macro","tag-photography-2","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40449,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40403\/revisions\/40449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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