Spent Sunflower head

I’ve been enjoying the shapes and textures in the spent seed heads of the common sunflowers that have spontaneously grown in my yard. While I have some views showing the complete head, I like this much closer view better because it emphasizes the shape of what’s left behind. This is a 30 shot stack to get most (but not all) of the head sharp, rotated to horizontal. (R5, 180mm macro, 1/320 s, f/14, iso 800, tripod)

Hi Mark. Thanks for posting. It’s an interesting image and I see what you are trying to achieve. I think if it was me I would move in much closer producing a tighter crop to the right of the centre making it a closer abstract. There is slight damage to some of the other parts of the seed head and this would eliminate them.