Mark Hamilton, Underside (January theme: Abstract)

The underside of a giant lily pad of the victorian amazonica waterlily at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. They lilypad usually grows with the flat side face up, so you don't see this structure., but this one developed upside down. Due to low light and no tripod I had to shoot hand held at 800 ISO. I chose to convert to monochrome to enhance the patterns and texture detail.

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