Did you buy the present yourself? I like macro because you can do lazy photography... like just shooting any small thing and they still look awesome, if people say they are not then you just say they don't know art :) You got some great shots, I always seem to think f2.8 solves any light but it is still kinda shitty when indoors but at least even if adding denoise and smoothing out since it is macro then it just looks more artsy. Nice work looking forward to some Mana macro adventures.