Echinacea purpurea Cone Macro

An Echinacea purpurea cone sits in the lower-left foreground, its spiky orange-brown disk and attached pink petals angled toward the camera. Soft backlit daylight fills the frame with pale greens and cream tones while a shallow depth of field blurs other cones into pink and green shapes. Tiny pollen grains cling to several central spikes, visible on close inspection.