Macro

I really, really like macro (close-up) photos. Not only do they look really cool (at least good one's are), but they're also technically challenging. I've only just started taking macro photos, so they're a little rough around the edges, but I hope to keep taking these sorts of pictures.

George Washington's face on the front side of a dollar bill.

Reversed 50mm on a 36mm extension, 1/125 sec (whoops), ISO 1600 (I forgot to write down the aperture. It was probably around f/16, but I really don't have a clue. The metadata doesn't include aperture settings when the lens is reversed.). Had I remembered to decrease the shutter speed, the camera wouldn't have auto-selected ISO 1600 and this might have come out better.

As you might be able to tell, this is the back side of a (dinged-up) penny. I like how you can see Abe sitting in his chair. The plane of the lens isn't exactly parallel to the penny, so the part with the UNUM is in better focus than the bottom right corner.

Reversed 50mm on a 68mm extension, 1/4 sec. ISO 100. Again, I forgot to record the aperture.

When I was walking from my car to the steps of my apartment after work one day, I noticed that there was a pretty neat birch tree (a River Birch, I think), so I stopped and pulled off a small leaf (no more than an inch in length) so I could take some pictures of it. When I got back to my apartment, I set the leaf down and forgot about it for a few hours, so it started to dry out and curl up. I decided to roll with the tiny punches my tiny leaf was throwing my way and I decided not to abuse the birch tree any more.
The last two weren't really lit properly and aren't in focus, so they don't look so good when you blow them up, but they're not absolutely terrible in thumbnail format. The second one is a good example of how small your depth of field (DOF) becomes for macro photos.