Leaf Topography
The teazle leaves in July were a bright green – these ones, though you would not know it, were yellow soaked in early morning sun.
I thought this subject suited a square format very well. Perhaps that it is because they look a lot like old aerial photographs of waterways. Air photos always seem to be in a square format, though they are becoming rare things these days like other film products.
I could not decide which works better, top or bottom. Both are the same treatment, but the top one is rotated from how I shot the leaf. I think that if one is interestedin the idea of strams as seen from the air then the top picturre is more effective, and if one likes leaf macros maybe the bottom is better.
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Canon 5Dii, Canon 100mm/f2.8 macro, ISO640, f4.5, 1/250th.
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These are gorgeous—I really like them. The two sides are fascinatingly different.
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Hi skadhu – they are very different, and I am not sure why that is necessary. But it seems to be.
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amazing B&W!
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Thank you Vincent, very nice to hear that from someone that does B&W as well as you do. Nice to have you visiting my blog too!
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Beautiful! Amazing how items in nature that we think are so different are in fact so similar…
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Hi Roberto – that is an interesting observation – there do seem to be many natural structures and arrangements that repeat time and again in unexpected places.
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Here is a subject I can really focus on, pardon the pun. I have an entire portfolio dedicated to leaves but my friends don’t seem interested in them at all. Yet they are among my favorite photos. These are terrific and, if forced to choose, I’d pick the top orientation. Don’t ask me why.
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Thank you Ken! I agree it is hard to choose. I also tried 45 degree or similar angled crops and in the end they did not make a lot of difference either, to me.
I too like leaves, often the lone ones. They have very graphic qualities. Tomorrow I have an appointment to look at, among other things, some 10,700 year old leaves we dug out of the mud at the Kilgii Gwaay site two summers ago. And last night we were discussing how they persist in compost heaps, if the compost is not turned over they can last for years. Persistant, graphic and visually confusing – leaves have it all.
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Fantastic, ehpem. Some parts remind me of elephant skin.
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Thank you Ashley! Elephant skin is something I am not too familiar with, so that comparison would never have occured to me. Now that you have put that idea in my head, I am going to have to play with it, mentally anyway.
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