I don’t know what kind of bushes these are, but I do know they’re amazing. My sweetie first told me about these as she showed me some photos she took with her phone while out for a walk. Naturally I had to investigate them for myself! Here are a the first of many photos from this area. I presume you caught the B-52’s song title reference in the title of this post…

This last one is the shot that brought me to this point. My wife got a photo of this with her phone and it took me quite a bit of strategy to get it with my expensive camera! The reason for this is that a phone’s camera has to fake shallow depth of field due to its small sensor size, while a digital camera with a huge lens has to fight that shallow depth of field. So in a shot like this, you end up “focus stacking” – taking multiple photos with a different focus point, then combining the in-focus parts of all of them into a single photo. It’s time consuming, but it comes with a big payoff.

I spent plenty of time here and made a repeat visit or two, so expect more cool shots from here tomorrow!