Some flowering sagebrush from Friday. I hadn't even read about this when I took it. I was on top of a mountain, and figured if I used a telephoto lens I could really isolate the sagebrush and make it pop. This was taken with my K3 and Tamron 500 mm 55B mirror lens, handheld(1/2000 s, ISO 1000). It took a lot of trys to get proper focus and framing, but I like what I was able to get. The background of the shot is the evergreen forest of pine and fir trees below, and it's far enough away that the typical donut bokeh from a mirror lens doesn't show up. I do really like this lens for its portability though, and it comes with me nearly everywhere.
Kristian