Larch buds

A small larch tree growing new leaves. This species has the peculiarity of being a deciduous conifer, meaning that unlike most conifers it loses its needle-like leaves in autumn to grow new ones in Spring.

That is not a photoshop effect. The minimum focusing distance on this lens is so close (about one millimeter from the front lens element) that it focused on the Black Mist filter.

I used a Lǎowā 15mm f/4 macro lens on a Sony a77 camera, with a Kenko Black Mist filter.

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