I had been looking for a dandelion seed head for some time to have a play with my macro lens. Ideally I wanted some interesting light on it. Well, today I found the head, and had to make do with a brief burst of lunchtime sun knowing that it wouldn't get any morning or afternoon sun in that location and even if it did I wouldn't be there to record it.

So I laid down on my side with the camera, opened the aperture close to but not quite all the way, waited for the sun to come out from behind the clouds (again, as per the comments on Friday's shot), tried to ignore El Gato (Lucy the cat) rubbing herself up and down my back and meowing loudly over... I'm not entirely sure what... and eventually... fired.

The forecast is for rain or showers for most of this week. (Not as bad as Queensland and the north NSW coast have been getting; they've both been copping a deluge again, for the second year in a row but thankfully without quite the same level of floods.) Accordingly this opportunity may not present itself again this season.

It was suggested to me that having someone blowing the seed heads off may have made for a good shot. Unfortunately while that person was testing the strength of the breath needed to move them they were all blown off leaving me pointing the camera at a barren stalk. I therefore had to use one of the pre-destruction shots that I'd taken.

The names in this story have been omitted to protect the guilty.

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