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The underside of a fern showing the spores. A fern is a member of a group of roughly 12,000 species of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They differ from mosses by being vascular (i.e. having water-conducting vessels). They have stems and leaves, like other vascular plants. Most ferns have what are called fiddleheads that expand into fronds, which are each delicately divided.
Heavy frost here recently. Another shot with off-camera flash. I like creating high contrast black and white shots of ferns as you concentrate on their shapes and textures. I process the raw file in DxO PhotoLab with my main concern to crush the blacks around the fern and remove any distracting elements then I use the FilmPack plugin, selecting a film look I think suits the image best and tweaking it from there.
Ferns turned color in an Autumn glade on Long Lake near Long View Lodge in Long Lake, New York on Saturday, October 1, 2022.
A fern in my garden that I transplanted from my mother's garden years ago. I remember when I was a kid being thrilled each spring when these would appear from the ground cover of periwinkle in the shade of the rhododendron. It's nice to still see them appear in my own backyard now, between the artemisia and the peonies.