Sharp

There are sharp serrated edges on this leaf--managed to get sharp focus, too.

Late autumn

The leaves have been falling like sifting snow until today, when a steady rain pulled the last of them from the trees. This one was plastered onto the windshield. Hipstamatic caught it perfectly aligned with the trees in the background.

August 4: Sunlight glowed from behind this leaf. Photocopy delineated the delicate veins that the sunlight revealed.

Next weekend is the Berlin Fair, which includes a photography contest. Yesterday, I was so busy choosing and printing my photos that, while I took the picture of the day, I forgot to post it. Here it is--a leaf trapped in a spider web underneath one of our big blue spruces and dotted with the rain that fell all day. Poster Edges helped to emphasize the details in the rain drops.

We in southern New England are just plain sick of the rain. June is supposed to be sunny and pleasant. Instead, we're just getting more March--one wet chilly day after another. This rain-spotted maple leaf was clining to the front railing this morning. Cutout did a nice job of reducing it to its basic elements without losing the deatil of the veins.

Such is New England weather: on Monday, we had a foot of snow; on Tuesday and Wednesday, temps were in the single digits and we were loading up the woodstove; today, we were hiking in shirt sleeves. No signs of green yet on the Sleeping Giant, where we skidded through patches of snow and jumped across rivulets of meltwater...but here and there were beech trees with last year's paper leaves still clinging to the branches. They were the only hint of color in a late winter landscape. The Photocopy filter outlined the veins and lit up the leaf.

The Plaster filter had a very unexpected effect on the photo when the opacity was reduced a bit, bringing out details and making it look rather like a botanical drawing.

This magnolia leaf was lying nestled in a hollow in the snow.