August Challenge - Brittle

Day 29 of DDW's August daily challenge - Brittle

There is a beauty in flowers that are well past their best (or dead as some people would say). These tiny roses came from one of the bushes in my garden, it always has produced quite small flowers, but loads of them. These came from when I have been cutting things back.

I have given it a little "treatment" too. They are certainly brittle as they will break easily when touched.

For those who commented on the lens mentioned in yesterday's blip, it is surprisingly quite a bargain as they have been known to fetch $160,000. There were 527 of that specific lens made, each to special order, primarily for the scientific market, but some were used for other purposes.

The lens was first designed in 1969 as the SAP-Fisheye lens for the National Antarctic Expedition team to observe the whole sky and surrounding ground together.

They do give a unique view on things, since they can see behind themselves, having a 220degree field of view. They are now a real collectors item, as well as possibly producing some very different photographs - as they produce a circular image on a 35mm film or it's digital equivalent. And being Nikon, even though it's over 30 years old (the one on Ebay was made between 1977 and 1981), the lens mount is the same so it will still fit the latest Nikon DSLRs, and work.