Parsnip

I approached this as a potentially easy job. I had left a couple of parsnips to go to seed in the garden (because I didn't know what one looked like) and there they were, right in front of a dark painted fence. Each individual flower was glistening with tiny globs of nectar. The first problem was the breeze. Even when I stuck a cane in to tie it up it still swayed about. Several failed snaps later I was up to ISO800 and speeds of over 1/1000.

Patience got there in the end and I got a series of closer and closer shots, stopping down all the time to about f20 at the end.
Here's a parsnip flower head - not your average cow parsley.



and a bit closer



and closer



And I've seen maybe two bees a day on it. This is a worrying year.
K1 with a Kiron 2.8/105 macro lens.

Lovely shots. I’m always reminded of the Uxbridge English Dictionary’s definition of Parsnip:
“A dad’s vasectomy”.

Worth presenting the 3 views - like them all

Had to think about it for a minute - but got it eventually