of ATCs, and a shiny new toy.

Thrill! I finally finished prepping my contribution to 's wild, hairy Artist Trading Card (ATC) drive. 40 cards, nicely printed and seamlessly mounted on cardstock, ready for trade -- if anyone's interested in that sort of thing. To print the cards I cropped and scaled 40 of my shots that I like the most, squeezing eight trading card-sized photos onto one 8x10 image. I took those five weird composite images into town and had them printed by a very confused photo lab, then took them home and (carefully!) mounted each glossy 8x10 to a sheet of cardstock. Once that had dried I cut them out with a photo trimmer (a treasured spoil of high school yearbook), and stuck 'em in a handy little baseball card holder. Et voilà

Almost all the cards are prints from my gallery here; a few are shots I either haven't uploaded yet or are intentionally withholding (mainly because I'm not convinced that they're worth showing to you guys). If you'd like to trade for a specific card leave me a comment on that image; if you're not peculiar in what you get, let me know here and I'll send you a random card! Huzzah!

In other groundbreaking things, I bought a shiny new toy -- a Canon 100mm 2.8f macro lens. Naturally, I spent all day today (well, before the rain started) running around taking gloriously large pictures of fantastically small things. Minifigs, rejoice! Expect a raft of mediocre macro stuff from me for a while, as I figure out how things work. Oh, education.