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Photos by the Mad Fox @ Mad Fox Designs

I have a great fondness for photography. In high school, I earned the money to purchase my first SLR camera, (it was all film back in those days!), by taking commissions for drawing portraits from people's photos. I thought I was pretty good, back then - I sort of feel bad about it, looking back. I suppose for a high school student, I wasn't too bad. But, I digress... My favorite topics were animals, birds, and flowers. Sunsets and sunrises (the few times I see them) are also right up there. Now, with digital photography, wow, what a great thing! I can take a million photos and never worry about having to process the film! I am free to pick and choose what turns out, and delete what doesn't. I still enjoy photographing all of the things I did before, but I especially love working with macro. Life's tiniest things are so often its most beautiful.

The top several of the photos below are from a fireworks display many years ago. They were taken using a small point and shoot digital, with no flash. This camera had a setting on it that I had found odd and decided to try - it was specifically for taking photos of fireworks! I had no idea what it would do, but I liked the results of the first one so much, that I did that entire session with the setting. I see that my new point and shoot (for when a large camera is just obnoxious), a Canon Powershot A3300 IS, also has the setting. Exciting! All of the rest were taken with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi. The Crystal Forest photos were of a reaction of ice melt on concrete. Who would have thought something so mundane would be so fascinating? And "White Space" is a macro of an aquatic snail. Reflection of the flash on the water made part of the shell look transparent. "Southeast Asia" is of my fully planted Southeast Asian biotope aquarium.

"Changing Gears"