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Fern Macro. Fern Kiss. Yin and Yang.
The Field Notebook say: Few living things unfold into existence with the elegance and grace of the fern. It may just be that practice makes perfect, since ferns have been unfurling themselves in spring for hundreds of millions of years.
The fern is known as the koru to the indigenous peoples of New Zealand, the Maori. The koru is often represented as a spiral in Maori artwork, symbolizing opening to new life and bringing purity to the world. It represents peace, tranquility and spirituality along with new growth or new beginnings. The Koru is also associated with nurturing and when it contains more than one frond, it represents the strength and healing of a loving relationship within family or community. The design in the shape of two unfolding fern fronds symbolizes the bonding of disparate kinds of people, with two opposite but complementary life forces, echoing the familiar Tao symbol, the Yin and Yang. As each frond unfolds to leave the circle, it reaches out for a new life, new growth and so represents the cycle of life and the interdependency of the web of life.
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My wife and I rarely get a day off with the kids in school, if possible a bushwalk together (free of moaning kids!) is always something welcome. As I work towards my first book I am still scouting possible locations, worthy walks that might make the cut. On this occasion I don’t think Little Zig Zag will make an appearance but I am very happy with a couple of the shots I managed to grab and should eventually make their way to the Print shop.
All images shot with the Pentax K-1 and the vintage 1960’s Takumar 50/1.4 eight element (which is very much the subject of the forthcoming book).
My wife and I rarely get a day off with the kids in school, if possible a bushwalk together (free of moaning kids!) is always something welcome. As I work towards my first book I am still scouting possible locations, worthy walks that might make the cut. On this occasion I don’t think Little Zig Zag will make an appearance but I am very happy with a couple of the shots I managed to grab and should eventually make their way to the Print shop.
All images shot with the Pentax K-1 and the vintage 1960’s Takumar 50/1.4 eight element (which is very much the subject of the forthcoming book).
A test shot with the 645D for colours. I've of course tweaked these tones in post processing, enriched them, but I was quite taken back by the original capture to even bother with this edit, it seemed to have a very strong starting base.
Happy Fern Friday! (ok I might be stretching it a bit with this plant being a fern?)
The Spore Exchange BPS Asplenium septentrionale ebps.org.uk/ferns/growing/spore-exchange/ … ebps.org.uk/membership/join-the-bps/ … #fernfriday
The Spore Exchange BPS Asplenium septentrionale ebps.org.uk/ferns/growing/spore-exchange/ … ebps.org.uk/membership/join-the-bps/ … #fernfriday
The Spore Exchange BPS Asplenium septentrionale ebps.org.uk/ferns/growing/spore-exchange/ … ebps.org.uk/membership/join-the-bps/ … #fernfriday
Feathery Forest Ferns in Foreground
Try saying that 10 times really fast!
This is a view from one of the walking tracks at Sherbrook Forest in the Dandenong Ranges in Victoria showing the variety of flora there including tree ferns, wattle, various other small bushes and creepers and the tall mountain ash behind.
The Mountain Ash was prized for its timber by early settlers here and there was for a time, a timber industry in the district but thankfully the area was realised as an important habitat for many beautiful animals, the most impressive being the Lyrebird which can still be seen around here but unfortunately we did not have the pleasure of sighting this amazing bird.
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