I'm not sure about the composition in this one. Having spent 15 minutes nose in the earth photographing the stonecrops, this group caught my eye with it's mix of textures. That's one of the thing when hiking, when you get your camera out of the rucksack you tend to try and maximise the time its out of your bag
Purists would probably want the lower vegetation cloning out. Slight compositonal crop. Oly E-3 and 50mm macro
Unfortunately I haven't a clue, I don't have a fern id guide, stems were smooth purple per "maidenhair" type but I didn't note the sporing body shape (whatever the correct botanical name for structure is....) as I believe this is a main fern id feature
Posted by jack chapman on July 26, 2009 at 1:36 PM
interesting composition and lovely colours too, think it might've benefited from a narrower aperture though to get all the elements in the frame in focus
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3 repliesPurists would probably want the lower vegetation cloning out. Slight compositonal crop. Oly E-3 and 50mm macro
Which one is it?
Looks a bit Oak fern-ish.Maybe a bit of Parsley fen too in the bottom.
JohnR
Unfortunately I haven't a clue, I don't have a fern id guide, stems were smooth purple per "maidenhair" type but I didn't note the sporing body shape (whatever the correct botanical name for structure is....) as I believe this is a main fern id feature