1. Macro 

I went out with an old Cosina 100mm macro lens put on an EF tot EF-M adaptor on my Canon EOS M50. The lens is faulty: every five or ten pictures I get an error about the connection between lens and camera. (Turn camera off and back on brings it back to functioning.) I think the lens also fails in focussing as I noticed every picture has some 'double vision' like it's seen cross-eyed. But the adventure to go out and make pictures did not become less pleasant or less mindful.

It was a snowy day. That gave me one disadvantage and two benefits: the disadvantage being that besides taking pictures of very small details wit snow, ice and melting stuff, the rest of the world was mostly hidden. The benefits were of course that the snow made the whole world evenly bright and lit, which made everything I chose to photograph nicely lit every time and from almost every angle.

This photo lacks sharpness, but I like the light shining through the ice soo much.

Metal fence.

2. Texture

For the 'texture' assignment I ended up with something like a moodboard. 

The texture of my knee in blue jeans fabric.

A brick wall pained gray.

Autumncolored leaves from a hedge. Not so much tactile but texture it is (to me).

Snow on the street with holes marked by drops of thawing moisture.

Screenshot from Lightroom. It's like a moodboard.

3. Color

For the color assignment I decided to use my Viltrox 56mm F/1.4 lens. It was a working day so I had less time to experiment, and like the days before the world is still covered with snow (working from home because of that: almost all trailroads and roads are jammed with snow, traffic and accidents).

My wife's colourful bike in the snow. 

The red padlock we use as a key ring for the lock on the mailbox outside our house.

 

The (remains of a) flower on a plant in de window still on my home office working space.

4. Silhouette

For the 'silhouette' assignment I took a wood carved horse my wife has as a decoration. She has been an amazone and horse owner all her life, so the little statue represents that. I first did some practice photo's with whatever was in my line of sight: the old but still very usable coffeemaker I am supposed to bring to the second hand store (but I can't go there because of the weather allerts and tons of snow we are experiencing right now).

I used my Canon 55-200mm F/4.5 lens for this.

Wooden horse.

 

Practice shot with the old yellow coffemaker that has to go.

5. Reflection

Today I did not have a lot of time nor a lot of possibilities. The snow/winter thing that's going on took away every refecting water, which would have been my reflection of choice so to speak. I went for a run in the snow but could not take my 'real' camera with me. So one experimental photo that mostly annoyed me and told me not to go that way with the assignment. (I did include it here because I have so little results this time.)

Next idea was my home gym, the mirror that I have there, the metal of the bar (EZ-curl bar in this case). It became a self portrait even though that was not the assignment (yet). But I suppose it's not forbidden.

I used my Canon M50 with the Viltrox EF-EOSM adapter with a Canon EF 38-76mm F/4.5 lens and a small Rode microLED light to brighten things up. 

Reflections in the home gym.

Sad attempt with reflection in the window. Not with selfie camera, but that's about all.

6. Minimalist

My minimalist photo could have been more minimalist: if I'd taken the action figure only. But I liked this so much that I stuck with the whole AT-ST toy. 

This was the M50 with the Viltrox 56mm F/1.4 lens, using the Rode microLED inside the toy and a small spotlight for the lighting.

Biker scout action figure in an AT-ST toy.

Earlier attempt.

7. Selfportrait

I took a black backdrop and a small permanent spotlight and experimented with myself in front of that. In two days I'll be running a 10.5k event in Egmond aan Zee. It has the reputation of being a very intens battle with the elements (it's a place at the North Sea shore). Right now the weather forecast says it will be -15 degrees Celcius in the night leading up to the event. So it's on my mind a lot. Looking foreward to it, but also fearing it. That's why I included the bib (that paper with name and number) in the picture.  I like it. Would have been nicer (in hindside, now behind the computer screen) if I the bib had some room to the right. But I appeared to have only shots with eather a cut off piece of my bald head or a cut off piece of the bib. I choose this one, haha.

Canon EOS M50 again, this time with the Viltrox adapter and de Canon EF 38-76mm F/4.5-5.6 lens.

Me on januari 9, 2026 around 15:30.