Looking down at some fresh Gymnocarpium dryopteris and Canada mayflower leaves. These ferns are small and delicate and produce fronds all summer and so stay this bright lime green. They are soft and easily bruised and love damp, cool forests. A similar tri-pinnate fern is Bracken and it is much bigger and darker and can thrive in dry, sandy areas like parking lots and roadsides.
I noticed the ferns growing in profusion around the trail and especially between it and the river. It was so delicate that I had to stop and study it for a while. Then I noticed this couplet off on its own and pointed the camera straight down. I liked how the three wildflower leaves echoed the triangular shapes in the fern itself.
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Technical Details
Tripod and CPL
Lightroom for an initial crop & rotation, lens correction, tonal adjustments, texture, clarity, sharpening & nr. Also tamed the greens in calibration and in HSL. Photoshop for some strategic clone stamping and then I used some zone and color masks to tease apart the various hues in the leaf litter and in the fern itself - color masking was especially useful here - so precise. Also ran a clarity action just for the greens using a color mask.