WOW Peter. Excellent capture and processing. But I'm wondering if there was any movement on the buds part being outdoors and all. Would this not effect the photo stacking?
@novab Thank you for your interesting comment and Fav Nova, it was a straight out of the camera image just cropped a little, shot at f5.6 with shutter at 1/250 because there was a little movement in the tree, as for focus stacking you do have to try and reduce any movement in each of the shots you stack therewise it could be noticed in the final composite image but still worth a go to see:)