Flower Friday - Berberis Darwinii

Our Berberis is just coming into bloom now, so I thought it would be a good subject for this week's Flower Friday.

I took this shot with my makeshift macro lens taped to the front of my zoom, pointing the camera up to achieve the radial bokeh effect with the light of the sky shining through the branches above. I couldn't get the tripod into the right position so had to hand-hold the camera, and since I needed a small aperture for depth of focus and a reasonably fast shutter I had to use quite a high ISO. So there's a fair bit of "noise" in the shot, but I thought it was still worth posting.

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Thanks as always to Biker Bear for hosting Flower Friday.