RHS Wisley

29th August 2021

For Macro Mondays theme, "Behind Glass". Height of the stem in this image is approximately 2.3 inches

Macro monday: Spiky

I dearly love finding dandelions in my garden, whether they are the yellow flowers or the soft puffs of seeds ready to take to the wind. Generally I leave the dandelion there (unless I am removing weeds, and then I say goodbye to my little friends). However, this one time I decided to break the dandelion puff off of the stem to take inside the house for a photo session. The moment I removed the puff, the bottom of the stem curled into these two tightly wound circles. What a treat!

Lined up in a row, six wine glasses given to me a few months ago as a Birthday present.

Hand held and the gentle colour softness that this lens produces when fully open. Not much depth of field either!

All sorts of gentle post-processing, a bit here and a bit there!

Auto Miranda EC 50mm f1.8

~ aziza "likey?"

For Judy.. Just because:)

After reading all the good things you guys wrote about my work over the month of march I am truly touched.. thank you so much my beautiful friends.. I wouldn't have done anything without your constant support and inspiration:)

HGGT to you all

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flower (Daisy) stem .....rip detail where I pulled the single bloom

from the multiple bloom stem.

spirea macro from the back

Stems

Papilio Polixenes

We love to watch the lazy back-and-forth movements of these velvety beauties as they sample milkweed in my butterfly garden. I have planted Milkweed, Mexican Sunflower to feed on and lay the Monarch's eggs. They always fan their wings as they feed. I planted Italian parsley for them in my herb garden to lay the eggs on for the baby caterpillars to feed on. When you look close and put your ear close you can hear the crunching of the parsley leaves and stems 😄.

From my archived folder.

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Baby euphorbia plants with attractive red stems, growing in beach sand, on Kangaroo Island.

California State University Fullerton

I have been thinking lately that I need to take some wider angle photos and it is difficult when I enjoy the world close up and macro. My next goal should be wide lens work of people and places.

Art created from my photos | Creative Flowers | Spring | Yellow Flower & Stem #abstract

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360/365 -Around the house - Day 360

It is in late autumn when the leaves are on the ground that you notice the character of the leaf. The veins and stem have always been there but are not as noticeable in the summer when the leaf is green and still connected to the tree.

Stems of the Stipa shrub growing on the edge of the pinery within the Kuneevsky forest area in Togliatti

Dotted Stem Bolete / Flockenstieliger Hexenröhrling / Neoboletus erythropus

And shades of orange

Poison hemlock stems have distinctive purple streaks on the stems, and fernlike foliage.

Beginning a morning hike around the Eibsee with a view. Carrying the camera with you is always a good idea.

san francisco, california

Young Dotted Stem Bolete

Flockenstieliger Hexenröhrling

Waiting for the dusky night, the function is lost by the twilight

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I always look for pumpkins with fun stems.

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...added a stem to my candy foil wrap "floral design"

(Reeses Candy foil wrap)

an unplanned work of art

seen in my kitchen sink

last August.

for Macro Mondays. Compared with the large bowl, the long stems on my posh wine glasses seem very slender and fragile, and I always take great care when handling them.

The five other glasses are reflected in this one stem.

Three Legged Cross, Dorset

Cabbage Stem Weevil [Ceutorhynchus pallidactylus]

COLEOPTERA > Curculionoidea (Weevils) >

Curculionidae (True Weevils) > Ceutorhynchinae

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This minuscule Ceutorhynch (Seed) Weevil was no more than 3mm long and proved to be one of the most difficult insects that I've tried photographing. Looking at it in this shot you get no idea how small they are!

Miscellaneous Composition; ©2011 DianaLee Photo Designs

I was out early one morning with only the big lens, looking for wildlife. No luck there, but I was very glad I noticed this frost on these red stems. I don't know what the plant is. I've been bringing my macro lens every day since, but frost this nice doesn't happen very often. Siskiyou County, California

For Macro Mondays - Glass

Wine glass stem