Taken with a vintage 500mm mirror lens on my Micro 4/3 Olympus camera, making the effective focal length 1000mm. To get these flowers in the frame for this composition I had to stand around 8 to 10 meters away from them and the only crop I applied was to get it into a square format. A lens that is a nightmare to use but honestly, so much fun to try to tame the beast. Don't even bother trying to focus the thing at anything less than 1/1000 sec shutter speed. It's like a gifted but very difficult child, hard to control but in the end, worth all the effort.

And not a donut in sight! (Mirror lenses are notorious for producing donut shaped bokeh balls.)

Olympus OMD-EM1 Mk2
Tamron SP 500mm constant f/8 aperture
mirror lens

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