It’s quite fantastic what photos can be done in the artistic range of a lens. My Yashica ML 35mm/2.8 is a nice landscape lens but also very good for closeups, sometimes soft but in the picture below sparkling. In the springtime it nice for catching the flowers without that exaggerated wideangle that is so trendy now.

I like the small, unripe fruits that grow to berries. The light shines through them almost. Here photographed with Asahi Super-Takumar 85mm/1.9.

The flowers are starting to grow, and I wanted to portrait the spring with Pentacon 50/1.8. This is the years first flowershot, a hepatica nobilis. Not to sharp, could be due to my bicycling 30km before shooting it ;)

Yesterday I bicycled round lake Tysslingen and made this image of whooper swans with Super-Takumar 135mm/3.5 M42-lens on Canon EOS 350D. The swans here are an attraction for wildlifephotographers every year, and they were lined up at the fence with their big tele AF-lenses… all getting the same image I guess, of the same birds and with the same weird look on their faces when they looked upon my little Takumar ;)

Today we had a spring setback. It felt like the warming sun had a grip and nature was waking up.

Today the snow came back.

On the other hand I got a “new”, old camera I got from my father. More info soon :)

First image shot with Pentacon 50mm/1.8, next one shot with Super-Takumar 85mm/1.9 and plastic bag.