True Blood

True Blood

Yes that is human blood. It's my blood.

This is really sadistic but originally I was going to cut myself to do a similar shot with less blood. I wanted the authenticity of true blood. I was in the bathroom, I had the knife pictured above in my hand and I had my Nikon D300 sitting on the counter ready to go. As I looked in the mirror holding a knife and my arm out, I just couldn't get myself to do it. It really freaked me out just running the tip of the blade over my skin.

So I figured shit, there goes my Macro Monday.

Luckily I've been sick this whole week and when I get sick, I occasionally get a nose bleed. As luck would have it I got a major nose bleed Friday night and I grabbed my camera in my computer room, grabbed the knife in the kitchen and ran to the bathroom sink and I let myself bleed out for a few minutes into the sink and over the knife. And here we are.

This is for the group Macro Mondays. This is a fun group where every Monday, a macro photograph is submitted for the week's theme. This week's theme was "Halloween".

Taken with a Nikon D300 w/ a 60mm f/2.8 Micro Nikkor Lens

Nikon Speedlight SB800