LX3 Macros. Seven hundred and forty eight of them.

At pleasant start to the morning when I join my wife for coffee and a pork soupy breakfasty thing on Theppasit Road. She seems in no rush to get to the office, and I am in no rush to go anywhere; which is of course how life should be.

After breakfast I head on out to Nong Nuch to try out the LX3 in their orchid area. I have now spent a few minutes perusing what passes for a manual and have discovered a few new tricks. As a result I have the camera set to take a standard colour photo, a slightly modified standard colour photo, and a black and white photo; each time I press the shutter. Obviously this leads to a proliferation of shots, and after ninety minutes shooting I have 748 photos on the card. Before some smart ass points out that 748 is not divisible by three, I also took a few “pinhole camera effect” shots, like this one.

Of course I could always just take a colour shot and then process it to black and white, but it is useful to have the camera do it, and then compare which shot I prefer. This one….

..or this one?

Here’s a few more. All were taken this morning with the LX3; apart from one which was taken a while ago with a 1D, a 100mm macro lens and ring flash. Does one stand out as being significantly better than the rest (no exif peeking allowed)?:

This little camera continues to impress me.

On the way out there was a sleeping cow which I thought would benefit from the “pinhole camera treatment”. But once I settled down to take the shot, she decided to check me out.

Not quite the composition I was aiming for.