Slowly working up the material collected on my recent trip into the Arctic North. One of my target taxa was Hippuris lanceolata (Lance-leaved Mare's Tail), which I managed to find on several localities. One probably has to be an ardent botanist with a preference for aquatic flora to truly appreciate this Arctic species -- however, the impression of male power manifested by its tiny flowers is hard to ignore!! A section of the flowerering spike, here reproduced at 10X, shows the vigour of the male parts.
Z6, Laowa 25mm f/2.8 Ultra-Macro, stacking in Zerene. Ordinary Zerene does pretty well at high magnifications, but the algorithms deployed do not favour plant material I'm afraid. Thus lots of retouching is required later on.
