Although your camera/lens may have been helpful (image stabilization or something like that) in achieving a not blurred image, think your stable hands have done the main part. Amazing result for a handheld taken picture with an exposure time of 1/4 sec, Richie. Just wonderful!
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Zooming far in may show a little softness in individual leaves, but the normal enlargement on my iPad makes for an image substantially focused its size and ratio. Amazing that this is handheld.
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