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!

~ 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

Explore# 327

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

from the multiple bloom stem.

Gocce nel muschio

spirea macro from the back

Dandelion macro

Stems

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

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.

And shades of orange

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

Mushrooms in the yard

For Macro Mondays' "Halloween" Theme.

The stem is about 2" (50 mm) long

HMM

san francisco, california

When constructed in 1890 the Peter Iredale was 285 feet in length.

Samyang AF 135mm F1.8 FE, developed in Affinity

Captured for Macro Mondays theme: spiral. HMM everyone!

Sempervivum (Hens and Chicks)

Nikon D810, 105mm micro

Young Dotted Stem Bolete

Flockenstieliger Hexenröhrling

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.

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

+LITERALLY+

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Leudal, Netherlands

Urban Capture WEBSITE

an unplanned work of art

seen in my kitchen sink

last August.

Macro of the Cone on a Cosmo.

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Indoor Tulip stem with sunlit accents....Morning Sunlight seeping through the window blinds.

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.

I always look for pumpkins with fun stems.

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

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