Daffs

Again, beautiful shots John, lovely carprt of daffodils. Ours finished blooming in my area on the coast here in Oregon about 2 weeks ago, but our weather isn't nearly as harsh and cold as yours. Brian is exactly right in talking of the hyperfocal distance. I've heard this issue discussed to death. There are numerous websites that discuss hyperfocal distance and have online calculators. What I usually do with my cheapo kit lenes with no distance scale, is for instance at 18 mm, focus on something approximately 6.5 ' away at f/8, set your focus to manual, and everything will pretty much be in focus from 3' to infinity. The poor man's way of doing it!