One of the photography Meetup groups I belong to has a late winter tradition of visiting a local greenhouse to add some color to our gray, depressing, Upstate NY lives.
Carol Watson Greenhouse Lafayette, NY
I don’t do much flower photography since I caught the bird photography bug, but I wanted to try out the close focusing ability of my new 18-135mm lens. 135mm is the weakest part of the focal range, but 1:4 reproduction ratio is nice to have when walking around.
I also wanted to give my Tamron SP 90mm F/2.5 Model 52BB a workout before deciding whether to sell it. I just bought an autofocusing 100mm F/3.5 macro and the 90mm Adaptall might be redundant. It is a very nice lens though. And it’s on a KA Adaptall 2 adapter...
Outside it was actually a pretty nice day for late February. Temperatures in the 50s and the sun was out for a while in the morning. It looks like it will be above freezing for most of the week, so instead of gray and white we will have gray and mud.