Steve Paxton's photos with the keyword: Flower

I have always wondered how this plant ever gets polinated as there are not that many bees in WA . I was taking photos of the flowers as we are about to loose the rains for a good week, when I noticed a most unexpercted behaviour. The fly did not just land on the flower it walked all over it the flies probiscis was going all over the flower in the mean time the flower was getting polinated. DO LOOK as Large as you can this a crop of the D810 file so you can see the pollen all over the fly. This time of year we start to see the bush flies about that become a pest in the next few months. This is how the australian plants live with out bees.

same as the one I have at home but a different strain

A tiny flower in a huge area of tree litter

This is on one of my native Bonsai's these are huge plants in nature mine is only 40Cm high this year theses tiny red flower best described as a buttery fly's mouth www.bgpa.wa.gov.au/images/horticulture/docs/pn_adenanthos_sericeus.pdf

Just a weed we try to get rid of but quite a nice flower.

my sister in law has some starting to open out. a truly beautiful flower BUT no scent sadly.

I was waiting to move the very large bonsai after I was all set up to take photos of a bonsai on tripod I saw the hover Fly. See if you can see the wings they never stopped at all, if you look large you can see it feeding on the pollen of the flower. australian.museum/learn/animals/insects/hover-flies

While checking for weeds from the city I took a photo of this years flower about 30 on the small group I have. A flower most people in Australia would never see at all as its such a small plant and live in a very narrow environment on the large granite Rocks. like the leaves the flower is also protected with sharp tough spikes.

I was told "it will never survive"(expert advice from the garden center) a Bougainvillea i dug out of the garden destined for the bin. This covered our whole back fence but What if ... Enjoy the flowers from the dead tree and two years work.

One of my all time fav shot. This shot above all I have done taught me such a lot about photography, How to take the shot, Settings and how you compose the shot This shot was all about the Flower but just as strongly All the spider webs. Slide from the 70"s Kodak ASA 100 50mm @F1.8 Olympus OM-2N

A very Different flower to most our natives