I am hardly a wildlife photographer but sometimes they just walk into my backyard, as was the case with this young mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) that was photographed, literally, from my backyard or, in this case, my front yard.

A digital camera’s sensor typically sees light in wavelengths ranging from 350 to 1,000 nanometers. (A nanometer is a metric unit of length that’s equal to one billionth of a meter.) Your eyes, on the other hand, see a much narrower range of light from approximately 400 to 700 nanometers.

I started writing these (theoretically) ever other Saturday posts about books because I have had a love of books and reading since my second grade teacher took our class on a field trip to the Clifton Park branch of the Enoch Pratt Library in Baltimore.

For pros and advanced amateur shooters, Kodak’s Ektar 100 film is an ideal for nature, travel, fashion and architectural photography where the emphasis is on detail and color.

The classic definition of macro photography is that when an image projected onto the film plane or digital sensor it’s the same size as the subject. For a full-frame (24x36mm) sensor camera you should be able to produce life-size magnification and focus on an area as small as 24×36mm at a 1:1 ratio.