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"You can live years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night."
-Denise Levertov
Edited with Topaz Studio 2 (Digital painting)
Liked this abstract take filling the frame as Mrs. Krach and I were hiking around in Wyoming. This was near the top of the tree, so the long lens worked well for this capture.
Pinecone cactus (Tephrocactus articulatus).
Originally from Argentina and now widely cultivated as an ornamental in North America.
At Michigan State University grounds in Lansing, MI
Helios 44-2 58mm lens
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Taken with Meyer Optik Trioplan 50mm f2.9 from a 70 year old Beltica camera.
I made a video about the lense: youtu.be/-y3iARbhpKY