I found this mushroom (I am not sure of the species) under a pine tree, and the pinecone nearby looked lonely, so I moved it so it could pose for a picture.

They look much happier now, no?

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I see you fallen on the ground

Where you landed without a sound

On the bed of green you lie

Waiting under the deep blue sky

Waiting to feel my hungry finger

Caress your skin and then linger

Opening you without a sound

As you lie upon the ground

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Tiny pine cone. Rhymes with stone #macromonday #stonerhymingzone

For some reason, when I sees 'em, I shoots 'em.

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“Throughout the span of recorded human history, Pinecones have served as a symbolic representation of Human Enlightenment, the Third Eye and the Pineal Gland.”

“The number 3 was considered as the perfect number, the number of harmony, wisdom and understanding. ... It was also the number of time – past, present, future; birth, life, death; beginning, middle, end – the number of the divine.”

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Macro Monday theme: Anything Goes

I wanted to post this to Macro Monday a few weeks ago, but was out of town on Monday.

Detail of a Ponderosa Pinecone.

Hi Flickr Friends, I'm alive! Thanks for all your well wishes and prayers regarding my sinus surgery last week. :) I'm hanging in there. It hasn't been an easy recovery at all...because of this of course. I'm still sprawled out on the couch and in bed every day. It's a test of my patience YET again but just hoping I feel stronger soon so I can get back outside with my camera. Gosh I miss taking pics so much. Patience, patience...ugh, not a big fan of patience.

This is a pic of a little pinecone from the archives taken sometime last year. I'm drawn to the petal-like shapes. Wishing I had something newer to post. I'm not sure how this will look to you since I processed it on my laptop versus my good monitor.

Hope you're all doing well and thanks again for all your love, support and friendship. I've been missing your beautiful pics.

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Pinecone

Whilst on holiday on the Italian island of Ischia I found this beautiful pinecone on the ground. I decided to bring it home as a souvenir and it now sits in a display in my fireplace - a constant reminder of a wonderful holiday.

A lonely pinecone in a pattern

Experimenting with pinecones I found on the ground while leaving work.

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Of pinecones

I think this is a pinecone, but if not it is a seed pod, so either way it seems to fit the MacroMonday theme this week of "P."

Upright in a winter's field,

Austere, fruitful.

So proud, pinecone.

DeKalb County (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.

22 February 2021.

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i wanted to write about how this photo came to be, since its a bit different than my normal process. a few weeks ago, i found this box filled with probably 100 pinecones in my grandparents basement - with the christmas decorations and such. my first instinct was "photo op." but i had no idea what i could do, conceptually, with a ton of pinecones. so, i went home and googled pinecone symbolism.

i learned that the center in our brains that is responsible for the perception of light, among other things, is shaped like and named after the pinecone. was so happy to find that modeling a concept after pinecones wasnt so hard after all.

the full version of this is like a million pictures stiched into a panorama (this is already three different photos), and i kind of like it, but i couldnt stand the thought of my sisters face being so lost especially since you can only look at it so big on the computer... even though it kind of payed into the meaning. full shot in comments.

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Hand-held focus stacks, testing on simple objects in natural light.

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#86 Pinecones

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The vignetting is natural.

None of my photos use an artificial vignetting.

Standing in the shade, I happened to look up, More Pine Nuts!

I thought I had posted this one but, I had forgotten. (Probably a good thing.) I don't really like this at all...

Weird composition.

Oh well. Enjoy anyways.

a great example of texture found in nature. Taken on the Nature Trail at Big Hill Park by the Welty Center in Beloit WI USA

Pinecone companion & Thistle!