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Feed me

Hungry mouths need feeding.

Conquered

Ripe and ready for battle.

This is going to hurt

We’ve been hit, going down fast.

From Within

Dandelion seed head caught in the light.

Will I fly again?

A sycamore seed makes it first and final journey. Black and white.

Bound together

Overlapping scales remind me of medieval armour. A pine/fir cone study. Black and white.

Broken thoughts

The leaf like scales of this pine cone (possibly a Sequoia cone, please write in if you can help with identification) fit together in a beautifully pleasing pattern.

Lost in space

We are all just lost in space. The base of a pine cone (specific species unknown, please write in if you can help identify). It was staring at the base of this cone that I realised the spiral growth pattern of the scales. On an unrelated note if you dry out a pine cone and […]

They won’t take us alive

Alien ship or naval mine? A close up view of the shell of a common conker, horse chestnut or Aesculus hippocastanum. Autumn brings a carpet of spiny green shells and shiny brown conkers to be squirrelled away by rodents and children (and some of us adults).

robert barker