It's macro time

Yesterday was Memorial Day -- the first public holiday my company has observed since the start of 2008 -- and it was the best Monday of 2008 so far. If Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt gave birth to a public holiday, trust me, it would look like yesterday. The weather was amazing. It was sunny. It was warm. I wore a sleeveless shirt and sunglasses. The temperature was 83F, which is maybe 26 or 27 Celcius, I'm not really sure. But it doesn't matter, because all you need to know is this: it was perfect.

I spent the better part of the afternoon at a grassy park near the lake. I was lying down under a tree. I read GQ. I think I fell asleep at one point. I also took some photos with the macro setting. Have a look.

This is me holding a stick. While I was at the grassy park, this was my stick. To point at things with. To wave around. I took a photo of this stick with the macro setting, which is why it's all clear and the leaves behind it (above it, actually) are all blurry. Macro setting rules. (That's right. I'm pretending to give you a photography lesson right now. Just play along, please.)


Macro setting is so awesome, it even makes random trash -- like this peanut packet from Southwest Airlines -- look amazing. Oh, my hand. It's so white! And the scary thing is it was that white before I even did the auto contrast thing in Photoshop!


So here it is. The ultimate: my hand using macro setting. Okay, class dismissed.