Tiny Fiddlehead-5339
I noticed this tiny fern fiddlehead in one of our flowerbeds today.
I decided to dig out my old 70-300mm zoom lens that has a broken zoom ring, but the Macro feature still works perfectly fine. The image was take at the 1:2.5 macro setting, with the image underexposed by 2/3 of an f-stop.
To put the size of this plant into perspective, the fern showing is actually less than 2 inches long. (Zoom in to see the detail!)
Fiddleheads or fiddlehead greens are the furled fronds of a young fern, harvested for use as a vegetable. Left on the plant, each fiddlehead would unroll into a new frond.
It's wonderful what we notice in our own space when we take the time to really look.
Tiny Fiddlehead-5339
I noticed this tiny fern fiddlehead in one of our flowerbeds today.
I decided to dig out my old 70-300mm zoom lens that has a broken zoom ring, but the Macro feature still works perfectly fine. The image was take at the 1:2.5 macro setting, with the image underexposed by 2/3 of an f-stop.
To put the size of this plant into perspective, the fern showing is actually less than 2 inches long. (Zoom in to see the detail!)
Fiddleheads or fiddlehead greens are the furled fronds of a young fern, harvested for use as a vegetable. Left on the plant, each fiddlehead would unroll into a new frond.
It's wonderful what we notice in our own space when we take the time to really look.