I was inspired by a blog on wordpress that I follow to take this photo. After reading Leanne Cole’s post ‘Death Flower‘ I was walking outside in my garden and noticed that my lilys were also flowering so I grabbed my iPhone and had a look at them in a different way.
These pins look more like nails up this close and I decided to share this photo especially because of the fluff that is visible on one of the pins! I also enjoy the texture. You can see the individual cotton threads in the cotton fabric. Who knew a pincushion would be an interesting macro? Look around you, I bet you could take heaps of great macro shots just of the things around you.
This is another flower that looks much better close up. These grow under my window in boggy soil in full shade. I threw some seeds in in frustration at NOTHING growing and most of what I threw in there didn’t grow either. Months later these popped up. They are actually pretty straggly looking, but they put some colour in my garden and I do love colour. I continue to be amazed by the intricate beauty of flowers.
This is the flower of rocket. You know the salad leaf? Well, when you grow it and don’t eat it all it goes to flower and this is the result. I love the powdery, visible pollen. Although I must say that the flowers are competing with the bright yellow flowers of the pak choy next to it in the garden bed and the bees much prefer the pak choy.
When I took the photo of my snow pea flower earlier I saw the beginnings of what is referred to as ‘green candy’ in our house. Mainly because it is the only way we can get E to eat them, but the pod is called the ‘wrapper’. The wrapper is my favourite part and I was excited to see the start of what I consider to be the tastiest plant in the vegetable garden.
I love this photo because when I look at it I see a tiny, delicate beginning and when you look closely it is beautiful. It is nearly a shame I will be eating it.
This is my shoe. I snapped it while I was sitting in the nursery watching my son read books. He is 10 months old so when I say read I mean look at the pictures and turn the pages. Thats reading in my book when you are a baby.
This is a succulent I have growing in my backyard. I love this photo for the colour and the tiny fine spikes down the edge of the leaf. You can’t really see them unless you look this closely.
This flower looks so sophisticated. Its hard to believe it is the flower of the snow peas growing in my vegetable garden.
This is one of my favourites. I hope you enjoy looking at it as much as I am enjoying finding and photographing them.
Learning the Light 