Almost obligatory

Last week I went for a photo walk with just a 50mm lens on my dslr, as an amusing exercise. A few days later I repeated that exercise with a different lens. And if the 50mm is more or less common as a solo lens (or at least it used to be) the much tighter 100mm, that I have chosen for the second walk, is much more unusual. But let's see what I managed to do with it!

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The lens today is the Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM attached on a Canon 6D mark II full frame camera. All the shots are taken with a wide open aperture.

It is one of the very best macro lenses in the market and a true delight to use it! Getting close to things is almost obligatory and so fun :)

Tiny flowers, the thorny leaves of a kermes oak, a few drops of resin at the wound of a pine, a stick of sage or the red and black fruits of a lentisk, they are all transformed, through that lens, into something magical!

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Of course the flowers are taking the biggest part of my attention, how can I resist to such beauty after all but the fact that I was holding an excellent macro lens didn't stop me from taking a few landscape shots. And the result is far from indifferent! I fancy shooting landscapes with a slight telephoto once in a while and this particular lens is perfect for that task too :)

And last but not least, a shot of my walking and life companions, that are always by my side :)

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