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Copyright: Bill Laucp (trekks) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1241 W: 114 N: 1979] (6842)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-01-27
Categories: Daily Life, Nature
Camera: Nikon D-80 Digital SLR, Tamron SP AF 17-50 mm F/2.8 XR Di II LD, 2Gb SD, 67mm UV
Exposure: f/2.8, 1/1250 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-01-27 10:30
Viewed: 535
Points: 38
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Play with macro shot here.

Most people love to shoot colorful flowers as macro, but at 810m top of Mount Santubong (or at any other high altitudes), I found this fern fascinating. It always grow very flat horizontally and saturated green color. But sometimes you can see the dead brown version side by side with the live green.

Most of times, it is difficult to find a good angle, but Sunday' trekk was lucky for me, vague sunlight after rain/misty fog. I found a good BG and bent over to get this abstract view. No flash and natural BG setting.

You can find this fern growing in abundance in tropical rainforest, but low altitude specie normally grow upward and bent shape. This one is flat and sideways.

Thank you for looking at our Borneo tropical heritage.

Regards
Bill

A fern is any one of a group of about 20,000 species of plants classified in the phylum or division Pteridophyta, also known as Filicophyta. The group is also referred to as polypodiophyta, or polypodiopsida when treated as a subdivision of tracheophyta (vascular plants). The study of ferns and other pteridophytes is called pteridology, and one who studies ferns and other pteridophytes is called a pteridologist. The term "pteridophyte" has traditionally been used to describe all seedless vascular plants, making it synonymous with "ferns and fern allies". This can be confusing since members of the fern phylum Pteridophyta are also sometimes referred to as pteridophytes.
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Hi Phil,
Another picture very graphical you did here. I liked these great contrasts of the green against the black ground. Creative composition. Best Regards, Consuelo

Hi Bill,
It's a fantastic work.Lovely and unique. Congratulations.
Regards
Maria

Hi Bill,
Interesting composition and a good clouse up to show a plants from 810m sea level, great color between greenery leaves and dark background, thanks for sharing.
Ally

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  • azaf1 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1449 W: 118 N: 1901] (8925)
  • [2008-01-28 1:29]
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Hi Bill
Great macro capture of the fern. The sprouts in early Spring are a great delicacy on Mount Pelio the mounts of the Centaurs where I live
regards
Argiris

Hi Bill
great perspective and beautiful colors and sharpness,wonderful light
Mehmet Emin

Hi Bill
Very nice shot...
Great perspective and colours...
Excellent work...
TFS/Regards

Hi Bil,
Very interesting shot of green plants...
Good macro and job. Tfs
Dr.Seyfettin Güner

Hello Bill,

Superb luminosity in this composition. The green is so stunning with the light perfectly exposed to give brilliant contrast against the darkened background. This is not your first fern and your have unique attitude towards this plant. Good job Bill... I have yet to try RAW.

Regards,
Jusni

Hey Bill, I love it.

Very lively colors and nice sharpness, the background is blurred very appropriately, great framing. I`d thought its a tropical plant, but from what I`ve read from the wikipedia (great note btw) it grows also in the colder parts and has some special meaning in Slavic folklore. Interesting.

See you.

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  • zmey Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1112 W: 72 N: 1077] (4197)
  • [2008-01-29 6:06]
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hello bill!

you know what!? maybe your attempt's composition is not perfect. maybe. but i love the vivid, lively green you have captured and presented against the brownish background. and the sparkle of life on the brownish leaf on the right. i find your play to be very agreeable, friend.

my compliments, and TFS
kristaps

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  • Uhu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 452 W: 0 N: 964] (4198)
  • [2008-01-29 8:55]
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This photo is good for TrekLens also, you know? Note is excellent, you perform a lot of research before posting something.

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  • miumiu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 677 W: 1 N: 218] (3669)
  • [2008-01-30 12:07]

Hello Bill!
Amazing macro! Black and green are fantastic! l like it!
Very special!
Agnes

Dear Bill,
It is always better to get the subject either with the background blurred or in your work here, the dark/black background. It is just the subject and its visual values and nothing else. Just like you, I'm also looking for the perfect fern in my trek.

Regards
Bani

P/S
I came from the old school where tripod is only a must when. Most of us then were trained to shoot at 1/8s. The trick is in the breathing. You shoot when you are at the tail end of your exhale.

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  • bazal Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2537 W: 124 N: 2378] (7884)
  • [2008-02-03 1:19]

Hello, Bill.

This macro is really great, both for the sharpness of the subject and the composition of the picture and for the informative content. This is clearly not the type of fern that you can see everywhere! It seems that the brown dead one on the right side is another type.
Thanks for sharing.

Bill how are you?

I pick this photo because the contrast is wonderful, I like the color and the frame you made give it more contrast and loks grate, I dont like the overexpose here in the fern leaves, the ligth of the sun shines too much and lost the shape of the fern in some points too, give it the apearence of plastic fern.
However i like the color and the contrast is wonderful.

Thank you for sharing your work and let it see it

Ciao

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  • alainh Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4034 W: 141 N: 6464] (30767)
  • [2008-02-13 12:43]

hello Bill
a pleasure to discover Malaysia throught your beautifull gallery !
i like the hard contrasts and the heavy coulours you choosed here.
have a nice day Bill
regards
alain

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  • leo61 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3560 W: 316 N: 6987] (29738)
  • [2008-04-09 12:41]

Hi Bill!
Fantastic macroshot of this fern,my favourite plants on this wonderful planet,because they are the oldest ones.I like the light and the strong contrast between the bright green and the nearly black background.
Regards,Leo

bill

very nice work, I liked the strong green against the black bakground. The shapes of the fern are very interesting here and the way you put it inside the compo is beautiful too

hugs

jorge

Hello Bill,
It's a very beautiful macro shot.
I like it very much for the contrast in colours and specially because you made a very beautiful composition using the shape of the fernleaves.
Regards, Paul

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