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Flower Power at Al's

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观音因在那里种花而被逐出地狱。 Guan Yin was kicked out of hell for planting flowers there. I usually take my camera to Al's Garden & Home in Woodburn, Oregon, and visit the flowers while we shop. Flowers hold a special fascination for me, with their mysterious variations of color, form, scent—flowers epitomize the Life Force and are its treasure. Along with the Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 60mm f/2.8 Macro, my mainstay flower lens, I brought the Olympus M.Zuiko ED 12-100 f/4 IS PRO travel zoom to see how it would do. While the zoom feature of the 12-100 is nice to use and the lens has legendary image quality and a ~1:3 closeup ratio, it just wasn't a substitute for the macro. So after a few shots, the travel lens was put away.  Like an old friend, the 60mm f/2.8 Macro never lets me down. I had a copy back in the original E-M5 days, but eBayed it when I had to have the latest-and-greatest, very excellent Sony 90mm Macro to go onto the full-frame A7RII that had pushed its way into the camera...