It goes under many local names in the UK - Church Broom, Hair Brush, Fairies' Fire, Venus' Basin, amongst many others.
Commonly known as the "teasing plant" or Teasel.
The stiff, spiky heads were used in the textiles industry for combing and raising the fibres of wool, a process known as teasing. The workers who did this were known as "fullers", hence the species name Dipsacus fullonum.

Oympus E-P1 + Meyer Optik Görlitz Oreston M42 f1.8, wide open aperture.

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London plane bark detail -
a hybrid of the American sycamore and the Oriental plane. First discovered in the 17th century then widely planted in the 18th and is now London’s most common tree.

Olympus EM1 + Canon FD SSC 50mm f3.5 macro.

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Hairy willowherb.

The life that was once so ordered begins its relentless breakdown into decay, chaos and disorder.

Olympus E-P1 + Pentacon 29mm M42, wide open aperture.

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Cow parsley.

Olympus E-P1 + Pentacon 50mm f1.8, wide open aperture.

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One of the many mirror-windowed buildings in San Francisco.

Olympus EM1 _ Olympus 12-50mm.

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