This cluster of Love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena), one of my favorite flowers, was so striking that I decided to try to capture the grouping, even though usually when I take photos of flowers, I focus on a single blossom.
Framing the shot was a challenge, as I struggled to find a plane and camera settings that would keep most of the flowers in focus. I’m pretty happy with the result and I did only a slight amount of cropping to get this final image.
I grew up in the era of what is known now as classic rock-and-roll and it seemed natural to borrow the title of a Led Zeppelin song for this posting. I can’t say that I remember too many of the lyrics, excepted the chorus of repeated “Wanna whole lotta love,” but some of the guitar playing was really memorable.
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Mike Powell 
Zep is still good…
Indeed!
The first album I ever bought was Led Zepplin 1 when I was thirteen, and then I bought every other album they did.
That’s a great shot-I know how hard it was to keep all of those blossoms in focus.
I think there is a whole generation of bloggers who grew up with that music. Rock on!
i love LedZep 🙂 When i saw the title of your post in my Reader, LedZep immediately came to my mind.. btw, nice photos and now i know where Nigella Lawson got her name.
[…] Love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena) is one of those rare flowers that looks as good (or even better) after it has finished blooming and has turned into a seed pod. If you need to remind yourself of the striking blue blooms of this remarkable flower, check out my posting from last week that I called Whole Lotta Love. […]