Taken with my nice old Panasonic GF1 & it's lovely little 20mm lens.

Taken with my old GH1 Panasonic and adapted Tamron lenses.

Adapted Tokina AT-X 90mm Macro lens on Panasonic GH1.

Pictures taken after a cold wet night with a Tamron 24mm Adaptall lens (that cost a whole $11 including post) on my old Panasonic GH1.

One of the last shots I took with my old D200 Nikon.
This was with the Tokina 90mm macro lens.
A great older DSLR that can be bought very cheaply nowadays.

Taken with a 40 year old manual focus Nikkor 50mm f1.4 lens on my super cheap GH1 Panasonic micro four thirds camera body via a $20 adapter. At f2.8, plenty of detail and a stunningly smooth rendering.
You can get adapters for nearly all the old Slr and interchangeable lens rangefinder film lenses on m4/3 (strictly manual focus and they multiply the focal length 2x). The prime lenses from the better brands (and some surprisingly cheap makers) can be lovely and full of character.

A truly lovely rose.

I've just done something I never thought I'd do; sell my lovely old D200 Nikon.
Don't get me wrong; I think it's still a superb camera and probably one of the best options for a serious but seriously financially challenged photographer, but I have a D300 and I love it just as much and I was thinking 'well do I need 2 Dslrs and should I get instead another better compact camera (than our S95 Canon) that I'll take with me more?'
This little Panasonic was listed with it's famous 20mm 'pancake' lens for a bargain price, that I knew I'd more than recoup on the lens alone, so I snapped it up. I took a few test shots while pretty much set on selling it as I needed the money but...WOW! See above. The wee Gf1 is a pleasure to use; just like a classic film rangefinder and the 20mm f1.7 lens is solid gold. I don't think it optically gives up anything to my Tokina 90mm macro; fabulous!
What a combination, I'm keeping it.

A bud from Astrid Grafin von Hardenberg.

A lot of the reference photos you'll see of this lovely violaceous single rose tend to be blown-out magenta in tone.
I suppose it's because so many photographers (myself included) love late-in-the-day angled light with its associated warm colour shift.
This is I think a much better representation of this rose (captured here under bright hazy light); it really is near-blue.
Nice scent too.

Thriving in our warm sheltered little annex.

It was a hot morning in the tea house and I couldn't resist the sheer overblown quality of this cactus's flowers
​Now you have to deal with it too :-).