Dandelion Clock

There are thousands of these things around at the moment - and mostly they are seen as weeds!

However when you find a complete orb like this they really look quite pretty.

Using my little panny camera in macro mode, I managed to get it so that the lens was almost touching the seeds - and I focused on the outermost part.

In post processing I added a radial filter in LR to darken the outer part of the image.

View LARGE to see the detail in the 'parachutes'.

After the wind we have had today I bet there won't be many of these around at the moment