Macro monday: Spiky

North Point Maryland State Park ,Upper Chesapeake Bay at North Point

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

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Pink Dog Wood Flowers have extra long Stems.

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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

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

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

Flickr Lounge weekly theme - shelter (tulips sheltering in a vase)

116 in 2016 #62 fill the frame

And shades of orange

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

For Macro Mondays' "Halloween" Theme.

The stem is about 2" (50 mm) long

HMM

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

san francisco, california

Asters can be notoriously hard to identify so I finally did something smart (rare!) and took a picture of the leaves and stem with my phone so I had a better chance of identifying it when I got home. Worked much better than relying on my so-called "memory"! Photographed after a rainy October night in Beaver Creek Valley State Park near Caledonia, Minnesota.

Hello, long time..I wanted to share this with you and to be

on my flickr record,the original concept was to have two

side by side,with a central drop hanging down,,that was the

plan..but i think i got something better though what do you

think?you see this could never be repeated and hears

why.the drop is glycerin,sticky and heavy,it broke the stem

and hung down before collapse, and a water drop would have

simply rolled off at the moment of stem break.this happened

by accident and i love it.

I always look for pumpkins with fun stems.

Thank you for your appreciation, Gail

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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.

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Thought the stems were very interesting - another one :-)

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

Ginger is a popular flavour at Christmas, usually pieces coated in dark chocolate but my take on it this year is stem ginger cupcakes. A quick and easy bake, and also an easy frosting flavoured with syrup from the ginger jar and topped with a festive edible 'bauble'.

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Clean stem glasses are stored upside down in a bar. A play of warm light, shadows and reflections. The impression of cleanliness.