Salsify flower seedball. Sony a7Riv w/ Sony 2.8/90 G Macro @f/11, ISO 400, 1/200". My visualization was to use an aperture with enough DOF for most of the silky strands while placing the central structure in a enough bokeh to isolate the stands. I think f/11 was a good choice. This is a center crop from an image of the entire spherical seedball.
This is a picture I took with my old Google Pixel 2 last year at the Calgary Zoo, quite a stunning plant!
Lifelines, Nikon Z6 & Voigtlander 35mm f/2 AL-Z
Just liked the "fan lines" this oxalis made in a simple house plant setting
Not sure that this succulent needed any such "dressing up", but it was fun to do!
Spring draba, flowers which are mm size, growing from the groove where the cement ramp into our garage meets cement garage floor, so tiny you'd step on them without noticing. Soft late winter low angle afternoon sun on February 20. Sony a7Rv w/ Sony 2.8/90 macro, f/13 1/500" ISO 1250. Background is the garage floor.
Okay then, let's do one of the 'biological kind' and one of the other kind ;-)
Spectrum
One day we had this plant on a window sill in our house that was lit with warm afternoon sunlight. The light did shine nicely through the leaves which gave it a very colourful appearance. Using a macro lens the whole image became pretty abstract.
Flaring
Burning unprocessed gases at one of the plants at the Chemelot site (South of The Netherlands), a large industrial complex built on the former site of the Dutch State Mines (DSM). This so called "flaring" is a way to prevent these gases to end up in the environment. Flaring can happen when a plant has to shut down unexpectedly, but also for maintenance to clear the pipes. The flame in this image is just a small(er) one, but this process can make a lot of noise and sometimes the sky lights up all orange!
Wild carrot society - gx85/panasonic 45 macro
hoary willowherb (gx85 + helios 44 experiment)
