Here are some shots of items I found out on Carolina Beach while visiting there with the family. What is poor mans macro, you ask? It’s simple. In lieu of an actual macro lens, you can take your normal lens off the body, flip it around backwards and take pictures through it. Now, you won’t be able to control your aperture of course (unless you can manually control it on the lens itself), but you want it wide open anyway to let in as much light as possible.

Pictured are (left) a feather, probably from a seagull, with some grains of sand, and (right) an old rusty dime found buried in the sand.