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I loved the look of this seed pod (from an agapanthus). Looked like a little bunch of aliens in a boat :)
Macro Monday's and the theme of "My Closest".
With the aim this week of getting as close as we possibly can to a subject and showing either a ruler or graph paper in the shot I first located a small ruler and then I decided to use some Chia seeds bought from a local store and I poured a small amount onto a white plate.
Next I placed the ruler onto the plate and then poured more seeds onto the ruler.
After setting up my camera and focussing the Tamron 90mm ti it's closest focus I found a close-up filter and tried attaching it to the lens. It was just too small but I managed to keep it in place using Sellotape.
Then I spent a while trying to find a composition and in the end I settled on what you see here. This shows the 8cm marker on the ruler. The close-up filter has the effect of having to place the lens so much closer to the subject than usual and depth of field is very small, so much so that hardly anywhere is in sharp focus.even though I set the aperture much smaller than I normally would. The smaller aperture has even created some chromatic aberration around some of the seeds.
The use of the close-up filter got me in close enough so that the entire frame from top left to bottom right is about 2cm long.
there were a few helicopters in the garden a few weeks ago, had a bit of fun with this one, the veins were so distinct
A seed pod from a milkweed plant opens up in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Pentax K-x
Tamron XR DiII Aspherical 18-200 mm lens
hand held
Sedum Seed Pods (Crassulaceae)
Gousses de sedum (Crassulacées)
Common Names: Goldmoss Stonecrop, Wallpepper, mossy stonecrop, goldmoss sedum, biting stonecrop.
Noms communs: L'Orpin âcre (Sedum acre) encore appelé Orpin brûlant ou Poivre des murailles ou Poivre de muraille
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During my visit to an old Italian village I saw this big seed head of about 150 mm of a for me unknown plant. This shot is hand held. I love the 'stars' and the repeated pattern. Tuscany, 2019.
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Seed pods of a variety of Allamanda cathartica (Schottii), a yellow flowering creeper from my sub-tropical Gold Coast garden. The green seed pods are soft but gradually brown and harden. The spikes are needle sharp, believe me!
Liquidambar Seed Pod
For Macro Monday - Spiky
The seed pod is 40 mm in diameter.
Happy Macro Monday!
..you see i'm not a dandelion seed, of course you knew that didn't you, i'm a very dandy artichoke seed. HMM friends.