Foliage

Spring foliage is delicate, beautiful and flowery. The foliage of a desert Joshua tree is built to withstand the torturous rigors of a harsh desert environment, on the other hand. Pretty, isn't it?

This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera with a Super-Multi-Coated Macro-Takumar/6X7 1:4/135mm lens attached to a #3 Extension tube (56mm) and Tiffen 67mm 15 Orange filter using Ilford Delta100 Pro film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop