Forget-me-nots are one of those small, friendly flowers that I remember from my childhood. They grew in my mother’s garden, and they grew wild along ditches and fringe areas, where they had long-since escaped from planned landscaping.
I took this photo at the Berkshire Botanical Gardens, using the Panasonic Leica 9mm. It’s the widest lens I have in my collection, although I freely admit that as a photographer I am more comfortable with telephoto lenses than wide-angles. Part of the appeal of the 9mm, however, was it’s ability to act as an ad-hoc macro lens.
While not truly meeting the definition of macro, where am image is rendered at least 1:1 life-size in the image, the 9mm has a very short minimum focus distance. I can have the subject almost touching the front of the lens, and still capture the area around it – and with a fast aperture, I can throw that area nicely out of focus, as in this photo.