<center>**A couple of images from an Ulex Europaeus bush.**</center>

<center>**These fellas are very well adapted to survive our hellish Summers without a single drop of water.**</center>

<center>**I shot these two images in the end of January and they were just starting to show the first buds and flowers of the season.**</center>

<center><sub>Sony a7 + Helios 44-2 --- ISO 100 --- f/2 --- 1/200 sec</sub></center>

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<center>**The next one was photographed few meters away from the first.**</center> 

<center>**Still no buds or flowers on it yet.
Just like us, I guess plants also have their own different timings...**</center>


<center><sub>Sony a7 + Helios 44-2 --- ISO 100 --- f/2 --- 1/125 sec</sub></center>


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