Amore took this one while testing a toy he gave me for Christmas, a fish-eye + macro lens. Macro doesn’t wish to focus for some reason, or we are unable.
Bushboy’s rules are simple:
1. Post the last photo on your SD card or last photo on your phone for the 31st January.
2. No editing – who cares if it is out of focus, not framed as you would like or the subject matter didn’t cooperate.
3. You don’t have to have any explanations, just the photo will do.
4. Create a Pingback to this post or link in the comments.
5. Tag “The Last Photo”.
For Last on the card challenge hosted by bushboys world

This day in my blogging history
2020: A most excellent sleepover with Flavia with a poem:
.
Tourists
.
This weekend we were tourists
who pay 7 eur for vanilla tea and apple juice,
and 23 eur for lasagne, risotto
and a small bottle of mineral water
without blinking an eye
because we saved 40 eur
for the photographic excursion
and so many other things were free:
spring,
new greens,
clouds,
flamingos and other aviators,
Niki’s crazy art,
good company,
beautiful light at dusk,
barking bestia,
and as many doors
and windows
as two bloggers,
one who unplugs
and the other who plugs in,
can manage.
And best of all –
no tourists.
How strange you can’t focus. Could it be faulty?
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Perhaps… I tried both auto and manual focus.
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Worth checking. I does sound it could be faulty.
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Fun post. I particularly love the line in today’s poem about paying high prices and not blinking an eye, because “so many other things were free:/spring/new greens/clouds …… Your reminder gladdened my heart. Thank you!
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I’m glad it did, Carol Ann. 🙂 This was such a brilliant weekend we had. I miss our getaways. She works in Iraq now.
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I hope sharing these memories with us makes her feel closer….
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Was he too close to the subject to focus? Even macro lenses have a minimum focusing distance and it’s sometimes easier to go full manual mode and manual focus while doing macro work. You’re the second person to say something about using a fish eye lens in January! I need to get mine out and play. It’s been ages since I used it.
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Deborah–you touched on something here–so if my macro shots come out a bit fuzzy, it could be because I am trying to get too close to my subject? Sometimes I really try to GET THERE, and the results is not great.
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Yes, check the specs on your lens and see what the minimum focusing distance is and it may be that you’re too close. It could be that while getting as close as you can you’re doing the macro rock…you know what I mean trying to get that razor thin margin of focus in focus by rocking your body or zooming with your body that you’re causing blurriness because of the rocking. I bought a macro rail to help with that and I use a tripod.
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Thank you so much, Deborah. Oh, yes–I am a pro at the macro rock…. 🙄
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LOL!! I’m not!! Hence the macro rail and tripod. 🤣
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I thought macro rock is if not an actual stone than at least a cool new music. 😀
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P.S. Sometimes when shooting wide open only that razor thin slice of focus is in focus and the rest is soft and or blurry because you’re wide open with your aperture. Stopping down can help too. It depends on the look you’re trying to achieve.
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So much to try. Photos look great in the camera and then the download…oh, geez.
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Been there!! 😂😮
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Thanks, Deborah, I’ll play around some more to see if I can make it work. It’s strange because often I’m not even able to click. This camera is still very new to me and I’m learning.
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Oh, that isn’t good. Is it a third party lens? I wish we were closer so I could really see what happens. I hope you get it figured out and start having more fun with it.
You’re probably at the top end of the learning curve with the camera now! 😀
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I’m not motivated to take many photos because I’m not going to any new places, so I’m not learning much. The lens is one of those cheap toys, don’t even know who makes them.
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Maybe in the Spring when the flowers are blooming you’ll be more motivated to play with it and if I can help from here just ping me! 😀
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My camera does that too–not clicking. It means (according to my Nikon guide book) that your settings are not correct. I just fiddle around a bit, mostly with the aperature, and it works. Try that! If not, we’re heading to Deborah’s house to learn camera tricks and listen to macro rock. 😆😉
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Hihihi!! I support that plan! And thanks.
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Love the poem and the arty shots, especially the crazy Brina puppet and the fountain night shot.
I will check out your other posts soon, but I thought I’d keep up with your Wordless Wednesdays at least! 🙂
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You’re being very good, Sunra Nina. Fleeting, I’m sure. (Hihih!! Just teasing.)
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I like the approach of not worrying about the costs because you have saved the money for it! Good approach. When you pay with cash, credit ceases to be an issue. 🙂 Sounds like you had a blast. My favorite photo is the puppet. What a neat mom to have made it. –Curt
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Thank you, Curt! 🙂 I’m glad you liked the idea. What a great weekend that was, I miss times like these. The mom of the puppet girl is probably the best Slovenian puppeteer. That helps. 😉 Did you click on the photo to see the original post? There you can find the girl in photos and you can see if the likeness is there.
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Missed the girl in the post. 🙂 Will have to check.
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A perfect Last Photo Manja 🙂 I do like the effect. Thanks for joining in 🙂 🙂
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Thank you, bushboy. 🙂 Way to go for the third year of this groovy challenge!
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I am looking forward to the third year 🙂
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I read quickly as “looking forward to the third eye”. 😀
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🤪😂
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Great puppets, great poem. (K)
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Thank you, K. 🙂 What a great weekend that was.
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I could tell.
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Sounds like the perfect day 🙂. Looking forward to the photos
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Oh, that was two years ago, the sleepover. 🙂 Click on that last photo and you will be transported to the post from that day with many more photos. But it was truly perfect. Thank you, Not Pam.
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Sometimes even the blurred can be useful 😂 Although one may wonder why it doesn’t become sharp if all settings are correct 😉
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I’ll need to test that lens a bit more. Thanks, Anita. Probably you didn’t have any problems writing this comment as there was no gallery in this post.
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