This is not a regular dandelion. Their seeds have different shape and are smaller. I am not even sure if they have so many sharp teeth. I know the flowers are also yellow, but there is so many yellow wild flowers around that produce fluffy seeds!
And all of them are worth shooting :)
Here is a secret to get a variety of macro shots:
You find a perfect fluff ball and shoot it. If you are lucky there is more of them around at different stage of losing seeds. Then your job is easy. Just walk around at shoot everything you can find.
But if not, you have to work with that one and feel no guild of destroying it.
So now move to step two and give a little blow hoping just a few of the seeds get lose and fly away. If you are not gentle enough they are all gone and you can just go home. You blew it.(literally!)
With a bit of practice, or a few gentle blows you get the seeds and centerless exposed but without losing all the lovely charm. It's like a flower anatomy lesson.
Keep shooting!
In the end you can just blow everything off and walk away.
They wont mind.
An army of them will regrow next year.
Bonus song for today:
Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
year 1998 (damn.. this song is 23 years old!)
Shot with Nikon D5500 + Sigma 105mm lens
All photos and text are my own.
