Today I was part of the long chain of knowledge that begins with the “the master of those who know” and extends all the way to my four year old granddaughter. In the spirit of Aristotle we recreated the dialectic on the various animal classes. I tried to explain the reason why a grasshopper was different from a mouse. We talked about the higher animals and the lower animals and I even got around to explaining why dinosaurs are related to lizards and birds. After about a half hour she’d had enough and we went back to a match game for dinosaurs. And after that back to Candy Land. Well I’d still give Princess Sack of Potatoes the intellectual edge over Plato but I think I need to get some high quality color phtots of different animals to make the discussion more compelling for her.
Once Camera Girl led her granddaughter into the kitchen to bake some pumpkin bread I decided this was a good day for some macrophotography fun.
So I took some focus stacks. I had a tiny old Roman coin and a long dead beetle lying around so they were my subjects.



The focus intervals don’t seem to have been sufficient to give a perfect stack. But i’m using a Sony Remote Commander and it doesn’t have any calibration for the focus change. I have a little program I can use while tethered to my laptop but the A7 IV requires a USB 3 cable and I only have USB 1 or 2. So I’ll have to go out and get one. But still a nice exercise.
All in all a day well spent.