Positive

Right. I have decided to be positive and not mention the word rain on this blog again this summer. We all know how poor Blighty has been battered this year. After a winter drought we now have parts of the country receiving a month's precipitation in twenty four hours. Towns are flooded, the crops are wet, the ground is wet, it's just a sodden mess.


So: Here we have a nice picture of our domestic rose. What could be nicer? This grows around the kitchen window of our little country cottage as you can see.


Some technical details: 

I chose to take this particular image with my trusty E-M5 DSLR and the excellent Zuiko 45mm f1.8 lens. This combination offers fast auto focus and spectacular image quality. Both camera and lens are very well regarded in the growing micro four thirds community. In fact I read of photographers abandoning full size Canon and Nikon gear, buying into m4/3 to get the benefit of light and compact gear without giving up good optics and camera performance.





In this case the rose is rendered nicely out of focus revealing the excellent "bokeh" quality it can produce because the AF has grabbed onto the window in the foreground that was, as usual, covered in rain.

Doh!

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