I needed a break from work and took a picture of this new sprout on one of our office plants. What a nice change from the endlessly expanding desert of snow outside …

"New life" | Olympus E-P1 + Lumix 20/1.7 @ f/1.7, 1/320 sec, ISO 200

Note on processing: I desaturated the image except for the two green leaves (which I oversaturated a bit for contrast), and added some vignetting. Minor tweaks in curves as well, as always.

I really do enjoy the M8 much more, both shooting it and the pictures it takes. But sometimes I have a bad conscience for not using the E-P1, so every now and then I take it out just to be reminded how much nicer the M8’s files are …