I've always been amazed at how something so small can grow to become some of the largest living things on the planet...really pretty amazing.

Despite some discouraging news in 2016, I'm still hopeful that many small positive seeds have been planted here and there which will flourish in 2017. I know that there are a huge number of awesome people out there who are working hard to make good things happen...they just don't tend to make the news.

At Doddington Hall gardens, Lincolnshire

Flickr Monthly Photo Challenge #1, May 2025: Up Close and Macro

Old burlap seed bag for Macro Monday's theme "Seed"

I inherited our dinning room table and all the table leaves were wrapped in these seed bags. I have just kept them in them when not in use.

Happy Macro Monday!

Semillas de castaño de Indias recogidas en el parque de "El Retiro", Madrid

Horse chestnut seeds collected in the "El Retiro" park, Madrid

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In the semi-wilderness of central Portugal it is impossible to maintain a weed-free garden...so I go with the flow and enjoy the beauty of the seed heads, not to be distracted by the tut-tuts of garden purists

Liquidambar Styraciflua

shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a fujifilm xf50mm f/2.0 lens

These small seedpods of Ceratostigma plumbaginoides ‘Blue Sapphire’ were shined by winter sunlight against some evergreen leaves. Tomorrow will be the midwinter.

Grass seeds with sunlight bouncing off it, I couldn't resist to take the photo. (Best viewed in Large)

"Never forget that even the grandest of trees once had to grow up from the smallest of seeds"

-Eliza Wheeler

Macro Mondays: #Bokeh

For this photo, on a cold, windy day, I put some string lights on the ground where many maple seeds had fallen. A hot chocolate at home after that.

Here's the final stage of the Farmers series.

All the white containers on on back of the seeder are full of corn seed.

It has been interesting watching the process this year. While sheltering in place, I've taken all these shots through my dining room window!

By the time the next phase rolls around in Fall, we'll hopefully to free to roam!

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Yellow flesh and seeds

Moment captured January 27th, 2023 at Boerner Botanical Gardens in Hales Corners, Wisconsin. (USA)

Distelsamen

Two views some weeks apart.

Testing lenses last year.

Seeds

Sunflower seeds supplied!

There have been some very heavy showers over the UK in the last few days and those conditions are ideal for photographing dramatic clouds. For this image, I stopped off at Common Lane in Bramcote, Nottingham, during my lunch break. I just hoped that there might be a break in the dark clouds to illuminate the oil seed field flowers in contrast with the ominous sky.

Seed Pods

Rhs Hyde Hall, Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK

Since there are seeds in so many differend shapes out there right now I have decided on a little mini series. Here is part one, a little Scabiosa growing its seed head for which it is named star flower.

One of the Yucca seed pods I collected while visiting New Mexico this summer. It looks pretty dried out so I thought it would be perfect for the Macro Monday's theme this week.

Shot with: VOIGTLANDER, 125mm f/2.5 SL, MACRO APO-LANTHAR, shot @ f/5.6, 38 Layer Focus Stack Rendered w/Helicon Focus, (B,R4,S2). Images measures 3 inches wide. Texture provided by Lenebem-Anna.

BTW: A week of having COVID and I'm so done with it. I dodged the bullet for 3 1/2 years and it finally caught me. I'm still testing positive at Day 8 but at least I'm feeling better, I'll be catching up soonest.

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Members choice; 'Seeds' April 17th 2017.

Lemon and chili, what I found in my kitchen.

Next year's headache in the making....this seed head had already managed to send off most of it's tiny parasols of seed before the lazy gardener, (guess who), could get to it...this year's beauty will be next year's headache...

Seeds and seed pods from a Red Hot Poker flower. For Macromondays theme seeds.

2017 one photo each day

Inspired by a fellow photographer.. This was a great moment ! Chasing tiny floating seeds in the wind with my daughter! The moment surpasses the photo.

I always let the coneflowers go to seed knowing the birds and deer will enjoy.

Male Bearded Tit / Reedling feeding on reed seeds. Taken last weekend after a hard frost.

Apart from the odd spider, they switch from a mainly insect to seed diet in the winter which allows them to stay in residence all year round, unlike the warblers which have to migrate south in the Autumn.

Nasturtium seeds plus the tiniest of slugs (can you see it?) lined up on a brick in my garden wall. HMM.

Macro Mondays

Seed is used for decorative work, wood turning. HMM!

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I've always enjoyed plucking a Dandelion puff from the ground and watching the seeds fly through the air. However, after recently observing a small red House Finch in my garden, I'm ready to change my ways.

A tall Dandelion was waving gently in the breeze when suddenly the House Finch landed on the ground, holding the stem firmly in place. For the next several minutes I watched the tiny bird feast on the seeds.

I love those times that I learn new things by slowing down and really studying the world around me.