D'Artagnan Sprengel (New Zealand) explores a new dimension of his lawn.
Lying on his frosty lawn, D'Artagnan used a macro lens to isolate a closed-up daisy head. He focused on the pink-blushed outer rim of petals and the crystal-covered green bracts - the leaf-like structure at the base of the flower. This was an unusual sight, given that in the coastal climate of the Auckland Region of New Zealand winter frosts are rare.
Indigenous to Europe, daisies have been introduced across the world, including to Australasia, where the flower ' is considered a weed. Each day the daisy's flower heads open and track the Sun across the sky before closing again at the night, earning it the name the day's eye.
New Zealand
D'Artagnan has been taking photos since he was 10 years old. On his eleventh birthday he got his first DSLR camera and from there photography become his love, joy and passion. He now spends almost every minute of his spare time taking images and editing them. He mainly focuses on bird and macro photography, as there are few land mammals in New Zealand, but he also enjoys astro and landscape photography as well.
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