With the warm winter so far here in Switzerland, I discovered on a walk yesterday that the nature shows already some signs for spring. A smaller tree is about to show flowers.

I did not expect to see early signs for spring and the only lens I had on the walk was the FA80-320, I tried to make the best out of it:

K10D, FA80-320, 1/250s f/8.0 at 240.0mm iso500


K10D, FA80-320, 1/500s f/8.0 at 260.0mm iso500


But finally the winter should come. Snow is expected on Tuesday and freezing temperature by the end of the week.

Comments and critiques are welcome

[Alvin]

You should post the second shot in the weekly challenge today before it closes The theme for the challenge is Macro.

[tcom]

Thank you alvin, did not see the weekly challenge.

[kjask]

lovely and very good shots!
It is really strange winter this year..

[Duh_Vinci]

I love these photos! Soft natural colors, nice bokeh - very nice!

Regards,
D

[clarenceclose]

Nice detail color and bokeh.

[tcom]

Thank you for your comments.

I am surprised by the good result. The 80-320 is not really considered a macro lens, but did a nice job on these photos.