[Leica] Friday Flowers 28 Elmarit and 90 Summicron

[cummer at netvigator.com (H&ECummer)]

Hello Again,
On the way down from the midlevels I walked through the botanical  
gardens and stopped in at the Orchid green house.
There were two serious young men inside with tripods and long Nikon  
zoom lenses taking studies of the orchids. They would set up the  
tripods and cameras and then zoom in and out to frame the flowers. I  
was there with my D700 and only the 28 Elmarit and 90 Summicron - so I  
set the lens in use at its minimum focus distance and rocked back and  
forth to get sharp focus and then stopped down to increase depth of  
field. The zoomers didn't think much of this technique and ignored me  
but I liked the results.

Please see for yourselves:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2010_001/Purple28W.jpg.html

http://tinyurl.com/24m9edd

First with the 28 Elmarit

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2010_001/Purple90W.jpg.html

http://tinyurl.com/2a4t2jb

And then the same bunch of orchids with the 90 Summicron.

Please look at them large - C & C always welcome

Howard