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rjlittlefield Site Admin

Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 19543 Location: Richland, Washington State, USA
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 3:55 pm Post subject: Green growth in forest litter |
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Just an interesting little snippet of what you see if you stick your nose down near the ground. Frame height about 2-1/4". I have no idea what the plant is.
Canon A710 camera with Raynox 250 closeup lens, aperture priority f/8, manual focus, single frame.
--Rik
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Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 1653 Location: near Portland, Maine, USA
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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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The color contrast is especially enjoyable, IMO. I've always enjoyed photos of "green shoots", perhaps because it seems to symbolize new life, etc.
Capturing such an object in a way that the subject + background match of course requires considerable skill and art, often more than I can summon. _________________ -Phil
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rjlittlefield Site Admin

Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 19543 Location: Richland, Washington State, USA
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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, Phil.
"New life" is exactly the situation here. This is high country, elevation around 6200 feet, and this spot was still under snow until just a couple of weeks ago.
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rjlittlefield Site Admin

Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 19543 Location: Richland, Washington State, USA
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I now have an ID on this plant, and as a result I've had to change the title. Rather than a "seedling", the green stuff shown above is in fact new growth at the ends of branches of a long lived perennial that the books describe as evergreen. Here's the end of one branch dug out of the mat that it likes to make:
Species is Luetkea pectinata, common name "partridgefoot". The web has many images of it.
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