Here in the Southwest US, we have what is commonly called greasewood, or creosote. The creosote that coats telephone poles, etc. doesn't come from this plant - the plant is named that because it's smell is reminiscent of creosote. Larrea tridentata is a flowering bush that has fruit that starts out as little fuzz-balls, in this case about 8 mm long with a diameter of about 7 mm (including fuzz). I am now realizing that this looks very similar to the fiddleneck post I did a couple weeks ago (http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... hp?t=33708), but I assure you, they are much different plants.
This is a stack with the reversed medium format lens, the Pentax 67 105 mm f/2.4, as described here : http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... hp?t=33834. A 411 image (!) PMax stack (manual ) at ISO 100, 1/80th of a second with off-camera flash with the aperture wide open at f/2.4. I would like to repeat this with the aperture closed down to say f/8 sometime soon for comparison. The orange/brown in the background at top is a small dry leaf and the greenish tinge is a fresh leaf even farther back.
As usual, I have larger versions and parallel stereo on my site in the "stereo images" page.
Enjoy!
Mike
Larrea tridentata (greasewood or creosote bush) young fruit
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