Another shot from New Year’s dawn. It was a morning of heavy frost and the beach rose was coated with white crystals. Added to the texture and color of the thorny rose and weathered hips and caught with a long telephoto setting on the zoom against a deep unfocused background, it makes an interesting still-life study.

Canon SX40HS at 840mm equivalent field of view. f5.8 @ 1/200th @ ISO 640. Program with iContrast and -1/3EV exposure compensation.

Processed in Lightroom forbIntensity and Sharpness.