At the height of Summer, these common mulleins start to look pretty weedy, with little of interest, but catch one early in its life with just a couple of flowers starting to emerge, its leaves all nice and velvety, and some good light giving it an interesting shape, and you can make it look like a flower you don’t mind seeing.

June 17, 2012. Nikon D90 (DX sensor), 70–300mm Nikon zoom lens at 195mm (35mm equivalent: 290mm), f/16, 1/180, ISO 200.