The right angle took these unassuming ferns into a beautiful photo
This month’s gallery is meant to highlight the photos that you can take in your own backyard. Surprisingly, all of my photos were taken within five feet of each other! Just off my deck is a bed of strawberries. Beyond that is a small garden of ferns that all sit below an Eastern Redbud tree. That’s all three of my photos from this month—all within a few feet of one another.
Sometimes you can get to looking at the world around you day in and day out, and you stop noticing the details. To try to avoid that, I’ll occasionally pick up my camera and force myself to find something to photograph. This can be when I find the most brilliant photos. That’s exactly what I was doing when I took this photo of a collection of rather unassuming ferns.
Although an unassuming bunch, these ferns ultimately provided a striking photo. Taken at this overhead angle, you lose a sense of depth and height associated to the ferns. By adjusting the photo to a black and white color scheme, there is stark contrast between the upper fronds of the fern, and the gaps that allow you to see almost to the floor of the garden. What was once a smattering of ferns that I walked past daily, became a piece of art worthy of being hung on the wall.
That’s exactly what we want this month to be. It’s about out followers, readers, subscribers, and donors. How do you see nature? What’s the lens that you experience the world through on a day to day basis? With our photo contest this month, we want to learn about your perspective of nature. Send us your photos via our social media or our email [email protected].
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Ferns have two types of fronds
Let’s learn a bit more about these ferns:
- Ferns don’t produce either seeds or flowers. They reproduce via spores.
- They are vascular plants, meaning that they have xylem and phloem.
- Ferns grow fronds that emerge from the outstretching of their fiddleheads.
- Some fern species can grow to be as high as 65 feet tall!
- Fiddleheads are also referred to as croziers.
- There are two types of fronds, or leaves, that ferns produce: trophophylls and sporophylls.
- Trophophyll fronds produce food for the plant via photosynthesis.
- Sporophyll fronds produce spores for reproduction.
- There are four classes of ferns with more than 10,000 species combines.
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