I still personally like this type of photography.
Two budding flowers in my garden on a rainy day. Nikon D300 with Sigma 70mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro

In January of 2008, I purchased my first Nikon DSLR, the Nikon D300. I had been shooting with Canon DSLR’s for a few years and wanted to try out a Nikon body for my business. At the time, there was a lot of buzz about the Nikon D300 so I made the plunge and added the Nikon to my collection. The D300 was a great camera in the day. It had a 12 megapixel APS-C sensor and could take a very good photo up to about ISO 1000. Later in the year, I picked up a Sigma 70mm EX DG f/2.8 macro lens.

This is the first photo I made using the Sigma 70mm macro on the D300. It was a rainy September day and I was sitting on my back porch. I broke out my tripod and focused in on these flower buds. I like the raindrops on the flower and the benign background looked like a good backdrop to capture these two flowers against.

With visions of photographic grandeur, I wanted to make some macro flower photos to market to doctor offices, hospitals and other businesses as wall art. So, I began doing more macro still life photos. I made hundreds of flower macro photos over the next year or two. While I loved the artistic endeavor, I eventually found out that macro flower photos weren’t an easy sell. They seemed popular, I’d see them everywhere I went, hanging in lobbies and waiting rooms. But, it was mostly an illusion or maybe a delusion, that I could find customers who were looking for these types of photographs. I eventually put the macro photography on the back burner when I found more popular image subjects amongst my customer base.

But, to this day, I still personally like this type of photography. I have several prints of macro flower photos hanging on the walls around my house. They just never turned out to be money makers. Also, to this day, I still have a Sigma 70mm macro lens in my kit. I just can’t let go of it. I don’t think I ever will.

I think I’ll post some more of my macro work in the future. That way, I can bore you with it.