Early Spring

It's early Spring in Germany, and a lot of the landscape is still brown and grey. The first spots of color are showing up here and there - Liverleaf is a violet carpet in some forests, Spring Snowflake here and there, Crocus on the meadows... it's the time where I find it more pleasing to focus on the details!

Pussy Willow Study (FinePix S5Pro, 1/80s @ ISO 100; f/2.8, 35 mm DX)

Last year in autumn I couldn't imagine that I would like or need a macro lens - and now that spring is here, I'd love to have one! :-) The above photo was made the the AF-D 35mm/f2 - with a close distance to focus of about 25cm it's quite nice for some close-up work. Being something like the "normal" lens on DX format sensors, I find it's genereally a very versatile lens. Fast and light-weight too. It's the lens that I mount when I want to "just take the camera with me".

PS: more of those Pussy Willow studies in my March web album.