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The cedar tree outside my new house has tiny, round seed cones. Some remind me of soccer or basket balls. Others have faces or masks.

It was a beautiful sunny afternoon, so got the camera, the tripod, the 100mm macro and the extension tubes and just fooled around seeing what I could get.

This group of seed cones reminds me, some what, of Star Wars Storm Troopers (perhaps after the Ewoks were finished with them?).  Will keep shooting the cones until I get a gallery of masks, or faces or whatever stirs my imagination.

One of the photographs from my "Winds of Asclepias" project, the  "Tallest Tower" can be seen at the Image Works "Hang with the Best Show" in Toronto during February, with the opening reception on Thurs. Feb. 4, 2010 at 5 pm.
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What is "The Winds of Asclepias?"  It is my my science fiction/fantasy natural world,  fine art project (yes that is quite a mouthful) of extreme macro photography of milkweed seed cones and milkweed seeds. Shot entirely in my front garden from October  to December 2009,  the project creates an alien world just using lens and light and with the just a couple of exceptions no special adjustments in PhotoShop.

Here is a thumbnail of the Tallest Tower (which, of course, will be available for sale at the gallery).