MOST of these are fake silk flowers, but a few are real. Look at the horrid corner performance of this zoom lens! This is the best I could get the original 5.2 megabyte sample photo to look. While I like the way the highlights are handled, and I enjoy seeing the shape of the diaphragm's opening in that ghost image at the top of the photo, I'm dismayed by the crappy performance of the test lens they used. You can almost feel how bad the corners are rendered with this lens--looking at the detail in the corners makes my eyes hurt.