Your assignment this week, should you choose to accept it, is to try your hand at macro photography.

A macro photo is an extreme close-up of a small object. Macro photos are usually done in extremely high definition, to capture details of the subject you might normally miss when viewing it at its regular size.

Insects and flowers are common macro subjects, but they are far from the only options! The beauty of macro photography is that almost any normal, everyday object can reveal interesting details if you look close enough. If you’ve ever seen the National Geographic Kids magazine—it was called National Geographic World when I was a kid, by the way—you probably spent a little time trying to decipher the What in the World…? images on the back cover. Well, those were all macro photos.

Inspired by National Geographic, here are a few macro photos of things in & around my house.

What kind of images will you capture when you put your camera into macro mode this week?