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Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/2500 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Lakeside Flora
Queen Anne's Lace before a background of cattails
A couple of weeks ago in “Cousin Jena at the Lake”, I noted that 1-year-old Jena had taken a sprig of Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus carota) to Grandma. After this, Grandma told me something surprising about Queen Anne's Lace that sent me back to with my camera...
As seen in the photo above, and in the close-up crop here, each “head” is a collection of a bunch of little off-white flowers...
( crop from the photo above )
If you happen to look a little closely, you may notice something else...
What might appear to be a bug of some sort if you notice it at all, is really a small purple flower...
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/4000 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Central Purple
Every head has one (and sometimes a few) tiny dark purple flower in the center. I'd never noticed.
Of course, not everything that looks like a bug at first glance is not a bug...
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/800 sec, f/5.6, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Couple'a Critters
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/800 sec, f/5.6, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
On the Hunt?
I thought the bigger ant might be looking to dine on the first bug, but it walked right past without any apparent notice...
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/640 sec, f/5.6, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Ships Passing in the Night
The heads of flowers, before they open, make for quite a sight as well...
I thought this looked like a young head about to open, but my mom informs
me that it's an old head curling up...
Somehow they look like a bunch of tiny Venus Flytraps.
Fantastic photos. Since I’ve started photography, I’ve been noticing things that I never would have if I never did photography. Especially here in Amami, while driving to work, I notice how may trees actually blossom in the early summer. In the thirteen plus years I’ve lived here, I never noticed until this year. Thanks for sharing these great photos.
“Somehow they look like a bunch of tiny Venus Flytraps.” – nice description, and it’s great to see you enjoying that envy-inspiring macro lens to reveal these delights. For some of us, at least in the UK, this is wild carrot, the tiny spikey fruits showing the link, for anyone who’s sown carrot seed. I believe that cultivated carrots, if allowed to flower, also usually have the solitary reddish or purple flower in the centre.
To me, Queen Anne’s Lace is Anthriscus sylvestris, but that’s the joy of common names – not only may the same plant have several different ones, but the same common name is often used for quite different plants.
Of all the ‘stuff’ I learn on the internet, this one has to be the best in a long time. I love the purple flower right in the middle. I didn’t know that. Wow.