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16-Mar-2024	Alastair Norcross

18 Snow? What snow? We're growing here.

Boulder

When we had 20 inches of snow last Thursday and Friday, I was anxious about these shoots. But I needn't have worried. A March Colorado blizzard is no match for their determination. This is a 20 shot handheld focus stack, processed in camera.

Canon EOS R6 Mark II ,Canon RF 135mm F1.8 L IS USM
1/2000s f/4.0 at 135.0mm iso100 full exif

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Canon Image Challenge		20-Mar-2024 02:35
We have daffodil buds, and snow is forecast for Friday. Dave

Canon Image Challenge		19-Mar-2024 04:54
I love to see the flowers burst through the snow. I had a bunch of daffodils in Minnesota that did that. A real sign that spring had arrived. Jim

Canon Image Challenge		19-Mar-2024 02:07
Tulips usually have thicker, more fleshy leaves. I guess we'll see when they bloom. Our irises have not been doing well, and rabbits and deer ensure we won't have tulips. My brother is a guitar and bass collector and player. I don't know how they survive the dry winters in his house. He probably takes one or two to Florida, where the humidity is worse in the opposite direction. Dave

Canon Image Challenge		18-Mar-2024 02:40
My wife says she thinks they are tulips. We used to have irises too, but they didn't make it. Neither of us is very good with flowers (though we like to look at them). I'm particularly bad. I can just about tell the difference between a rose and a carnation, or between a daisy and a poppy, but that's about it. So far, I love this lens. It was a real indulgence. Canon Pricewatch emailed me with a good deal (a Canadian store selling for a couple of hundred below normal retail, with no tax of shipping charge). This and the RF 50 F1.2 (which I got from the same Canadian store at an even deeper discount) are simply optically amazing. I have an old school friend who collects guitars (and plays them), which are just as expensive as lenses, so I don't feel too bad about owning these things, which I would never have contemplated fifteen years ago. I also have friends who have bought fancy sports cars, which cost several times more than all my photographic equipment put together. Still, it's a luxury. I think this lens will be a great indoor event lens. I was going to use it last Friday at a colloquium on campus, but twenty inches of snow closed the university for two days! Alastair

Canon Image Challenge		18-Mar-2024 00:52
Are those irises? How do you like that lens? Dave

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