Tiny Weed (Macro)

Skippy

Australia is in severe drought mode with water restriction the toughest most of us have ever seen in our lives.

My back yard is just about all dead now, but those darn weeds just pop up like flippin daisies water or no water .....why??? :dunno

I stood directly over this little weed and shot down towards the ground, the bud is not much bigger than 1/4 of an inch round, it's very tiny and wasn't opened.....I guess it's got a bit more growing to do before it opens up

Taken with Canon 20D + 50mm F1.4 + 3x Kenko Tubes + External Flash and Diffuser, hand held shot, camera in MANUAL Mode.

Weeds can be pretty too Enjoy...... Skippy (Australia)

GraphyFotoz

It's amazing!
I watched a program on a nature channel talking about the aftermath of Fires.
They showed the landscape after a fire year or so later.
The rich vegetation that was coming back was amazing.

Also saw a program about a drought area that got a monsoon rain 1-2x a year.
Was all dead and barren....a week after the rain it looked like the tropics!!

Nature has a way of making good from the bad.

Lord Vetinari

Wonderful shot skippy- lovely colours- think it looks even better rotated 90' CCW .
Brian V.

CavalierPhoto

GraphyFotoz wrote:

It's amazing!
I watched a program on a nature channel talking about the aftermath of Fires.
They showed the landscape after a fire year or so later.
The rich vegetation that was coming back was amazing.

I've got a perfect example of this. Taken on a trip to Yellowstone back in September. The infrared really brings out the new growth where a previous fire had destroyed most of the old growth.

Forehead

You mean the ENTIRE CONTINENT? Even the Eastern coastlands?

We're no strangers to droughts here in the desert Southwest. There've been droughts so severe that residents in some towns weren't allowed to even take showers!

ziggy53

Very nice! I wonder if this shot would respond to an "out of bounds" treatment?

ziggy53

Nikolai

Very pretty, Maxine!
As they say, the beauty is in the eye of the beholder :-)

Awais Yaqub

Beautiful i agreee with Brian

Skippy

GraphyFotoz wrote:

It's amazing!
I watched a program on a nature channel talking about the aftermath of Fires.
They showed the landscape after a fire year or so later.
The rich vegetation that was coming back was amazing.

Also saw a program about a drought area that got a monsoon rain 1-2x a year.
Was all dead and barren....a week after the rain it looked like the tropics!!

Nature has a way of making good from the bad.

Thanks for looking

Today we have the smell of smoke yet again in the air, so there has to be fires still burning somewhere .....

Yes fires do generate new life, but its the destruction and loss of lives and animals ect that is the worry.

Lots of places here they cannot get in and fight the fires, I really feel for the Wild Life..... Koalas don't have much of a hope, or possums, and other small land and tree dwelling animals... even sheep.

....... I know there is a circle of life and all things happen for a reason, but I really don't like to see people or animals suffer in the process... Skippy

Skippy

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Wonderful shot skippy- lovely colours- think it looks even better rotated 90' CCW .
Brian V.

Thanks Brian I will have to have a look at it rotated
I wasn't sure how to do it, I actually did a very slight crop on this shot to remove excess background.

Thanks for your input ......... Skippy (Australia)

Skippy

CavalierPhoto wrote:

I've got a perfect example of this. Taken on a trip to Yellowstone back in September. The infrared really brings out the new growth where a previous fire had destroyed most of the old growth.

Ahhhhh yes I was there last year too, and I got to see where the fires had been, you could see further back into the vegetation as the fire had cleared the land.

The people I was with told me if we had of been here months sooner we would not have seen all that we did, as the trees were so thick you couldn't really see into them.

So Im glad I got to see what it was like after the fires had been through.
........ Skippy (Australia)

Skippy

ziggy53 wrote:

Very nice! I wonder if this shot would respond to an "out of bounds" treatment?

ziggy53

I shall give it a try Ziggy ... thanks for that suggestion ..... Skippy

Skippy

Nikolai wrote:

As they say, the beauty is in the eye of the beholder :-)

Thanks Nikolai, I'm always looking for things to shoot in Macro Skippy

Skippy

Awais Yaqub wrote:

Beautiful i agree with Brian

Thank you Awais, many things in nature have a hidden beauty Skippy