Little ceramic angel from the Amana colonies

I've just discovered another good spot here at home for taking pictures: the small desk with a laminated top that I use for my laptop. I had just clamped on my old IKEA lamp a few months ago and use it as my only light source while working at my laptop. Now I've found that it's a good light source for macro photos. He-he.

Here's a photo that I took of the ceramic/bisque angel that was given to me by my mom so many years ago after she visited the Amana colonies in Iowa. I was looking around for something to take picture of this weekend--like I said I'm shutter happy nowadays--and decided to give the figurine a try. I just didn't to dust it off well enough before shooting away so that one can clearly see individual dust particles in the original image. Ugh! I'm glad only smaller versions are displayed on Flickr!