Wow, what a gorgeous image! I love the geometric/fractal forms of the ferns and the mirror image of the leaves in the reflective, still water. The scene looks as though it could be folded in half. Great job with perspective and framing, and with finding such a neat example of natural geometry and symmetry..
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What a mysterious image! The sole leaf sticking out above the presumably submerged greenery really intrigues me and feels like part of a larger narrative. The scene seems to speak to the resilience of plant life—and at the same time, it has an eerie tenuousness to it. What will emerge next? Great attention to detail and use of shallow depth of field here, too! Well done.
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**This contest is open to photographers ranked 1001+ in this week’s <a href="https://www.photocrowd.com/photographer-community/">Leaderboard</a>.** Whilst we include trees, shrubs and other plants in our landscape images, we seem to be less inclined to get up and personal with the beautiful leaves that clothe them, for at least half the year. It is indeed one of the joys of photography that it can encourage an appreciation of our world on different scales. For this contest we’d like to focus in a little more detail on the structure and colour and variety and interplay of leaves. That said, images of trees and shrubs in their entirety are of course welcomed, but let’s make the leaves the stars, whether they be on the tree, off the tree, green, brown, flat or needle-shaped.
