Garlic, photos on Flickr

When I heard that the Macro Monday theme was veggies I knew I wanted in. I was thinking along the chive/onion/leek line but when I went to the store I didn't see anything that jumped out at me except for a possible shoot with cauliflower against a white background. I decided to pass and kept looking. I started to look into small onions but then I saw a bin with cloves of garlic. I looked through the bin and came across this clove! I found what I was looking for, and at $0.79/clove the price was right. When I presented it to the cashier, he looked at me funny and suggested I get one in better shape because this one had sprouted. I asked him to be careful with it because I wanted to photograph it. He then asked that I wait a minute and kept looking at the clove while he made a phone call. It seems store policy is to throw out cloves like this and in the end I got it for FREE! Free is nice and with that as a backstory here is my macro garlic clove shot.

The clove measures 2.5 (W) X 2.75 (T) and was shot with my: 55mm f/2.8 NIKKOR Micro lens with a two shot stack. Light provided through a south facing window with the clove sitting on some black paper.

Make for MacroMondays group, Vegetable theme.

Now its off to a cup of water for a little more growing and perhaps another shoot in a few weeks!

Knoblauch - Garlic by Bernd Kretzer

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Opteka Makrolinse 10x

- Opteka macro adapter lens 10x -

garlic and basket by Ing. Cuevas

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ajos y cesta

garlic by RIA NON

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Garlic by gatierf

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Garlic Press by Helen Orozco

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My kitchen necessity.

HMM!

Macro Mondays: Kitchen

Black garlic by susacu

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Black garlic is fermented white garlic... tastes very good, is healthy and you don’t smell like consumption

Garlic Mustard... by angela kanner

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in the garden and very invasive... but they do make the prettiest tiny flowers... so I leave them and then I'll weed wack them down!!

Garlic by Rosana

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For Looking close... on Friday: "Tasty Minimalism"

garlic petals by Bluesrose

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with colours

Armadale woods, Isle of Skye by Seònaid

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Garlic and bluebells in full bloom in the woods, in the morning sunshine.

garlic chives by snowshoe hare*

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Wishing you a happy weekend!:-)

Garlic by Fritz ZFG

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A means to keep your distance ;-))

Wild garlic by Monique Rebanks

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A woodland full of wild garlic

Fresh Garlic by Cedars

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These were grown in a community garden at West New Bern Presbyterian Church

No cuspid, no cupid :) by Doklas M Boyke N

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Garlics believed can keep you away from the cuspids of vampires, if you make a necklace of garlics and wear it. But I also guess that the cupid doesn't want to bring you a mate, if you smells of garlics from that necklace.

Just kidding and Happy Macro your Monday... ha ha :D

"Thank you very much for all your faves"

Garlic Sprout by ~trigger_happy~

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Munich - Wild Garlic by Markus Bahlmann

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Allium ursinum - Wild Garlic in full bloom.

Spotted at the northern end of the English Garden in Munich.

Garlic by anne D

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Garlic oil - MM by jhtguksnaps

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