Hello, I'm Roger Wehage. My user name is pronounced "macro me" because I'm more interested in photographing less-noticed small or macro-sized stuff. I don't have a microscope...yet...so no micro-sized stuff.

I've been using cheap point-n-shoot and then (D)SLR cameras f Read more...

Hello, I'm Roger Wehage. My user name is pronounced "macro me" because I'm more interested in photographing less-noticed small or macro-sized stuff. I don't have a microscope...yet...so no micro-sized stuff.

I've been using cheap point-n-shoot and then (D)SLR cameras for more than five decades to take snaps, more often producing fuzzy stuff like you'd find in your fridge after a few weeks. Two months ago I pitched my 15 year old Canon DSLR and replaced it with an iPhone XR and three Moment lenses; macro, wide, and telephoto. I've hiked hundreds of miles through the Great Southwestern United States and taken the same shots that a million others have. Why bother? For the first time in my life I'm actually trying to learn how to compose and use my new toys, and no more fuzzies. My plan here is to present mainly sharp macro and close up images because they are not as common and plastered all over the Internet, and because getting sharp closeup images from a toy cellphone camera with a wide open f/1.8 aperture ain't easy. I also recently acquired a Celestron Nexstar 130SLT Telescope and may sprinkle in some not-so-small space stuff captured on my iPhone. I'm also learning how to use PhotoPills, so maybe I can figure out how to produce a few interesting snaps.

Who am I? A few intimidated people call me Dr. I'm a long retired Mechanical Engineer with a "Computational Methods in Multibody Dynamics Background," and my current hobby is photographing less-noticed stuff that would be mostly fuzzy without my reading glasses. I want to produce a few images that may give pause, and I realize that such images taken with a "toy" camera and by a retired engineer will never compete with the professional stuff. (Is there anything that hasn't been photographed to death?) So please keep that in mind when viewing my images. I'm more interested in learning what's wrong and right with my images so I may learn and produce better snaps.