Every year (for the past 4 or so) I’ve made a calendar for friends and family. I have used the images that I’ve shot during the current year only to make up each month. I’ve been pretty good at using images shot during that particular month.

This year, I’ve decided to offer the calendar for purchase. I’ve had a pretty good response so far, so I placed an order for a quantity of 50. I have 34 spoken for so far.

If you are interested in purchasing one, you can visit my website here. If you use coupon code DMSHoliday, you’ll get 15% off your order.  That goes for all prints on the site as well!

I have found myself doing a good bit of commercial product photography as of late and decided that it was long past due to get a decent macro lens. I had the good fortune to stumble upon a great sale on one of my go-to lens sites and found a new member to the lens family: The Nikon 105mm f/2.8 Micro.

This hunk of glass and metal is incredible. It is a beast of a lens. Not heavy or large, but more like a tank. It just FEELS solid.  When I yanked it out of the box, I couldn’t help but get really close to a bunch of things…

Like this rose bud.  Or Crusher, the silly kitty.Or a (mostly) empty bottle of whiskey.Or this deterrent.

I do believe that it will be easy to find fun things to shoot with the macro during my normal travels.