Two Takes On Ferns.

I’m drawn to ferns, in large part because of their intricate symmetries.

These are interrupted ferns, Osmunda clatytoniana.  I played with this first shot to achieve an infra-red feel, and found it very surreal:

…and here’s a close-up of its “fertile fronds,” dark green as the fiddle unfolds, soon to be dark-chocolate brown, later maturing to a light coffee color:

Ferns reproduce by spores rather than seeds or runners, and this is where interrupteds carry theirs.

More ferns later.