No post processing....

...just wanted to see how far I could push a standard kit lens and see what I could get out of it "in Camera".

The resultant kaleidoscope, which somehow reminds me of the fairground, is of a Plantain set against a sea of Nettles. The plantain was one of the "Nine Sacred Herbs" of the Anglo-Saxons, known as Weg Broade (or plant of the Broad Way), and put to many uses, including the soothing of tired feet, a poultice due to it's blood clotting properties, and it's antiseptic qualities led to it's use as a vital ingredient of many country, cure-all, ointments.

The Plantain spread to the States with the European settlers, where the native Americans, observing its spread, named it "white man's footprint" or "Englishman's foot". They also recognised the plants many qualities and put it to good use.

Medicinally, plantain is antimicrobial, antitoxin, antiviral, astringent, cooling, demulcent, diuretic, emollient, expectorant and vulnerary.

These days, I spend a lot of time trying to eradicate it from peoples lawns, but left to seed, it is quite beautiful.