New Life

This was a picture I was going to sumbit in March for the Nature club's "new beginnings" contest. Unfortunatley for me, I was not even a third of the way through the roll of film, and it stayed that way for several months. Oh well. One of the disadvantages of shooting film I suppose...

Anyway this is a lotus seed. Lotus are aquatic plants kinda like lilys but the leaves and flowers sit on stalks instead of float on the surface. A seed in the wild sometimes takes 100 years to germinate, but you can facilitate the process by using sand paper and taking off a bit of the outer shell of the seed, which is what was done here.

*Updated with Lucisart!