Roses in the rain

[puddleshark]

Celebrated the return of the British summer - grey sky, rain and gales, at last! - and the acquisition of a new macro lens, by visiting the Secret Garden at Carey. Strangely, I had the rose garden entirely to myself. Just me, with my umbrella occasionally blowing inside out, and the roses uncomplaining in the wind and rain.





































I may have got a bit carried away. Really pleased with the new macro lens. So nice to have a working auto-focus again, after two years of struggling with manual focus. And it was half the price of the last macro lens I bought. Now that Canon have stopped manufacturing DSLRs and switched to mirrorless cameras, it seems there's a glut of secondhand Canon-fit DSLR lenses on the market.

Comments

[heleninwales]

That yellow rose is stunning and the pink ones are very pretty.

That's interesting about the Canon lenses. I've pondered getting a polarising filter, so I assume the glut of lenses would also apply to filters? I must investigate.

[puddleshark]

There are so many stunning roses in these gardens, though I didn't make a note of the varieties this time. (Too busy struggling with my flimsy umbrella in the gusty wind to take any pictures of the name plates.)

Filters seem just as expensive as before, unfortunately. Perhaps they are still compatible with the new mirrorless cameras.

[heleninwales]

Oh, yes. Good point. I hadn't thought of that.