Same Subject, Different Light; Using Unusual Lenses

Two of our granddaughters gave my wife this tulip plant. I set it in front ofa window as the perfect place to create a frame around it. (click to enlarge)OM-1 Mark II; 150-600mm f/5-6.3 lens @ 229mm; 1/500 sec. @ f/5.6 A few weeks ago my wife celebrated her birthday. Among other gifts, she received some flowers from friends and relatives—a tulip plant and cut flowers. Whenever flowers are in the house, I try to make a few exposures of them to record the gifts for posterity as well as they give me an opportunity to practice some close-up photography. That is what these images represent. Nothing special here, just having some fun.For these images, I made a point to use a couple of different lenses than I have in the past. Instead of using normal focal length or macro lenses to photograph the flowers, I decided to experiment a little, test my skills and use lenses that would have never crossed my mind to use in the past. For these photos I used my OM-1 Mark II and the OM 150-600mm…