These delicate purple flowers were growing alongside the public school.
I took the photo with an old Chinon M42 mount SLR, with a Vivitar f/1.8 50mm lens. I bought the lens for 99 cents ($5 including shipping). It was cheap because of a scratch on the back element.
Of course, as cam be seen, my ongoing "gimmick" is to shoot wide open, and to look for interesting contrasts between the in-focus subject(s) and the "bokeh" of the out-of-focus elements. In this photo, this teqnique works well, I think, to highlight the exquisite beauty of this flower.
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