The last couple of days I have been writing about a walk I took through the Michigan Civilian Conservation Corps Museum. You can read about it here and here.

It was a really great stroll and as you can see from the pictures, the day was beautiful. Actually it was almost perfect for being the first day of fall.

When my wife and I left for this trip, I knew I wanted to take some good pictures, so instead of relying on my cell phone I decided to bring along our Sony RX100 III camera. Unlike most point and shoot cameras that have a relatively small sensor, the RX100 has a 1" sensor, so it takes really good photos even though it isn't a DSLR.

I had been wanting to try my hand at some real macro photography and my cell phone just wasn't cutting it. One of the first things I took a photo of was this mushroom hanging out on the edge of the woods near our campsite.

He looks like he had seen better days and was now just a broken afterthought of the proud fungi he used to be.

Back over at the CCC museum, I found myself standing by an old path looking over this stretch of land. The ground was covered by this almost blue sort of stuff. I still don't know what it is, but wanting to try some macro shots, I stooped down to get a better angle.

I want to call it lichen, but I don't really feel like we are far enough North for it to be that sort of thing. It looks like it probably is on the ground year round even in the hot Summer months. If you happen to know what it is, please leave me a comment and educate me.

Quite honestly, I think it looks more like something that belongs at the bottom of the ocean clinging to a coral reef instead of sitting out in a field in the middle of Michigan.

Even on the small viewfinder of the camera I could tell that my macro skills needed a little honing. I kept walking over at the museum hoping I could find something else to get a close up shot of.

I was just about ready to head back when I came across the statue that was on display and surrounded by these beauties:

Apparently, I have quite a bit more work to do on my macro game than I thought I did. For some reason the camera was autofocusing on the flowers beyond the one that I was actually trying to take a picture of.

I think I still got some beautiful shots, but not really the ones I was intending on. You know what they say though, the third time's the charm and finally I was able to come away with this:

Still not perfect, but I am getting better for sure. I am really fascinated by the subsection of Steemit that is focused (pun intended) on macro photography. My dad is a photographer, but I had never really realized there is such a big market for it.

I look forward to getting out more with my Sony and exploring this genre of photography. Hopefully in the future I will have much better shots to share with you.

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