Olloclip

Taking pictures...it is so much fun. And that is big part of the reason I like Project Life. It makes me think daily of reasons to take photos, possibly photos I would not normally take. But ask my family if they like Project Life for the same reason, and they might say otherwise. So sometimes it is good to give the kids a break from being the target of my lens and take pictures of objects instead.

And to take a photo through a fish eye lens can make the world from the 24th floor look like a glass marble.
The best part about these recent photos I have taken, is the lens I used is one that clips onto my iphone. It is called an Olloclip. Since I never got my Nikon 1 camera from Santa, I made this much less expensive impulse buy last week.

And my kids and I are having so much fun!

Besides the fish eye lens it has a wide-angle lens, and my favorite...

a macro lens that lets you get in so close!

Yes, that is a picture of Myrtle's nose.

The pictures it allows, remind me of the photos that use to be in the old National Geographic World magazine, the ones that asked the reader to guess what they were looking at.

Like this budding plant in my back yard.

The spicket screw

Computer speaker

and tree bark

I have wanted a F1.8 macro lens for my Nikon camera for quite some time (but Santa hasn't brought that either), and although this is not a 1.8, it allows for some pretty up close images, and better yet, it's very portable.

I have to say I love my new little Olloclip!