I took this photo from a big clump of Borage in the lane next to our house. I've tried in the past to photograph it but never succeeded - it can be a tad difficult because of the way the stunning flowers hang but this time I managed to find a way.

"Borage also known as starflower, is an annual herb in the flowering plant family Boraginaceae native to the Mediterranean region."

"Borage flower and leaves are used for fever, cough, and depression. Borage is also used for a hormone problem called adrenal insufficiency, for "blood purification," to increase urine flow, to prevent inflammation of the lungs, as a sedative, and to promote sweating."

It's also very popular with bees which of course is a very good thing indeed 😊

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honey bee in helenium flower

CONTEST: come up with a better title for this one

"If you can imagine it,

You can achieve it.

If you can dream it,

You can become it."

-William Arthur Ward

Explored - May 31, 2009

Red garlic, cut in half, there are small cloves, big cloves, cut cloves and closed cloves, a wide selection with a lucky cut.

Actually we went to the local fresh marked, and bough different sorts of onions and similar products all are onion vegetables, and made some pictures.

And today, don’t waste food, onion tart.

ant on anemone flower

Better if / Meglio se View On Black

Comestible de buena calidad

hoverfly (aka syrphid fly) on clematis vitalba in a neighborhood garden

It looks like Iris has been nibbled a little top left. She looked resplendent two days later

Zinnia

Another shot of a calla lily which was one of three in a bouquet of roses and lilies I bought last month

With its prey. Quite a capable predator if you are smaller than a jumping spider.

hoverfly on petunia (macro)

Your guess is as good as mine. This is a reworking of a previous post from 2008. I still don't know what this bug is.

hoverfly

hoverflies on the stamens of a white rose

red ladybug on green vegetation

While outside in the backyard picking the Chilli Petine peppers off out bush, before the birds eat them all. I noticed the small white chilli petine flower. With my camera at the ready, this image was born. I love the way this awesome capture came out. It is truely amazing how something so simple and small can be so beautiful Some folk's like to pick them when are still green, but I like them when are red.

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Thanks for all your support on my work in Photography. Gaston (aka Gasssman).!!!!!!

View in large or original size for wonderful details of this Beautiful image.!!!!!!

a young sunflower.... from the archives again.. ^_^

We're off to a weekend shoot again.. just dropping this bud to wish you all a great weekend!!!

The lavender in the garden is in full swing. I took this shot in front of the large oleander bush with its pink blossoms

In Explore, peaking at #28 and on the Front Page . Yahoooooooooooooooo

ef 85mm lens with a ef25mm macro tube extension. this lets you get really close. More naturey crap from Kew Gardens.

View Huge on Black and turn off the lights

In Picnik

Crossprocessed blue and red channel,

Vibrance action at 50% to make the little lights, then selective desaturation to the foreground 80% to complete the look. Use the B+W function faded 20% and then erased off the "lights" in the background. Clear as mud eh!

Oh the title is a comment on the contrast between the grasping, rising outer stamens and the cowed bent over central ones. As far as I can make out they are all the same, just their attitude is different.

They can because they think they can...

From a bouquet of red and white ranunculus which were bought for me the other day

locust borer beetle on goldenrod

Scheiblberg / Senftenberg

Nature's shower head------photographed at the Calgary Zoo

ditto

on Explore!

Bumblebee in hibiscus flower. He's covered with pollen. A lucky shot this morning!

Black lace weaver

A stack of 10 handheld shots, stacked in Zerene

Some messing around with double exposures using the flower of a Helonica plant ("giant crab claw") which my sister-in-law very kindly gave to me on Saturday as i've been a bit unwell for about the last two weeks

honey bee in a morning glory flower

Detail of red zip wrapping around the suitcase, Beside the unusual form, I love the color.

This is a less tight crop, than the photo for Macro Mondays.

Suspended for a fraction of a second, this perfectly formed droplet is a moment of pure symmetry. It is weightless yet powerful, embodying the delicate balance between motion and stillness. A fleeting crystal ball, reflecting the world in microcosm before it vanishes.

katydid nymphs on a flower petal

pimpla wasp on a cosmos flower