Dandelion

Dandelion, originally uploaded by wooac.

This is a closeup of a dandelion seed head before they've blown away. It was taken with a Point and Shoot Nikon P5000 with a reversed 50mm lens outside the 3x zoom lens off the fairway on one of the holes in the Lincoln Park golf course.

Some interesting things come out of this photo. The feathery spokes which loft the seed are not uniformly distributed. It's close but not quite. They do have bilateral symmetry however. I wonder if gravity is reasonable for this deviance from uniform or the closest packing (hexagonal) of the seeds themselves which forces this arrangement.