Local Flora.

[Isac]

#1 - Purple Viper's Bugloss (Echium Plantagineum).


#2 - Bee in the Little Gem Magnolia. The bees work overtime to remove each one of the many stamens which fall into the large petals and then they drop into them to harvest the nectar. Fascinating to watch.

[wigz]

While #2 has an interesting story, the colour and detail make #1 stand out for me.

[David_MC]

Nice shots. There seems to be some artifacting on that first image.

[Isac]

While #2 has an interesting story, the colour and detail make #1 stand out for me.

Nice shots. There seems to be some artifacting on that first image.

Thanks you gents. There's plenty of colour around at the moment and it's allm good to see. The CA is a fact of life with my 18-400 zoom lens David and I usually correct it, but I missed this one. Thanks for that - I'll fix and repost.

[Isac]

Hi David, I've reposted the Purple Viper edit.