I really hadn’t planned on attending the Capital District’s TulipFest this year. I mean, you photograph one batch of tulips, you’ve photographed them all.
But on Sunday morning, May 12, I had an idea. What would those tulips look like if I shot them with my new-to-me Nikkor medical 120mm lens?
This could be interesting.
A quick trip to downtown Albany, and there it is. Blooms and blooms of various colored tulips in all stages of show – from brilliance to dying.
Okay. The brilliant ones are one thing … but the ones where the petals are dying off … and the pistils are holding on for dear life … this could be interesting.
Especially if I capture them with this medical lens.
I strapped the lens onto my Nikon F2S (“Nikon Athena”) and burned off a roll of Kodak Ektar 100.
Let’s see what we get.
I should let you know that I took two sets of photos – one with the magnifying indicator on (you can see the number printed on the lower right corner of each image), and one without. The ones without the indicator are the ones I’ll save for future competitions.
But … damn. This is really my first true field test of the Nikkor medical lens in a walk-around hand-held situation, and Nikon Athena really rose to the occasion here.
I’m really, really, really digging this medical lens.
Trust me on this.
Chuck The Writer 
I still think you’d be rewarded if you added insects to your subjects; especially now, with your medical lens.
Who knows? Maybe one day you could share your shot of a caterpillar blinking one of its 12 eyes!
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