Interesting time of year for this challenge. Much of the plants in the northern regions are dead or dying, not particularly attractive (to me). But I got lucky and noticed this little Juniper tree at work with the berries. One morning with the sun just starting to melt the frost off the branches, I setup a tripod and got to shooting.
I used a 21mm extension tube with my 50mm lens. Unfortunately, it was a bit windy in this spot, so I had to focus, and shoot off a succession of shots, hoping one was taken when the berry returned to the very small focus plane. This one was the closest. I was able to mostly make up for the lack of tack sharp focus with Topaz Detail.
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