I spent Wednesay typing in pages of financial data from Form 700s filed by Kern County supervisors, planning commissioners and big-wigs. The Form 700 data is supposed to fight government corruption by forcing leaders to disclose their basic financial interests (businesses, stocks, property ownership, etc.)

If the public knows where a politician's bread is buttered, the theory goes, then they can catch crooked leaders trying to add some government honey to that bread.

Typing up 40 pages of Form 700 data is — for the most part — boring, however.

So in the mid-morning I took a break and joined some other reporters in a training session about how to use the "macro" focus option on the digital video cameras we use here at The Californian.

Macro = close-up

To practice, I shot this highly SAPPY video of some roses behind our offices on Eye Street.

Enjoy