November 12

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Starting my walk rather late in the day.

I don't know what plant this is, but I love the curvy leaves, and the sort of water-colory look along the mid-vein.....

I wonder why this one sprig is such a different color from the rest of the plant.....

I visited the sweet gum again.  These pics were taken inside, with a piece of printer paper as a background, and a halogen light above.

This leaf was almost purple, in reality.  This is not a very good rendition of its color, alas.

And now for my favorite subject of this photo shoot.....

I tend to think of leaves as two-dimensional, when they really use all three dimensions.  This leaf's stem came out at almost a 90-degree angle, which made for some cool shadows.

I have poster-edged these to bring up the details of the veins.........

 Here's the way the camera remembered it.

Here's the poster-edged version.

Another straight-out-of-camera image.

Poster-edged.   I love the shadows.  The faint one, showing just under the widest leaves, from the overhead light, the more-definite one from the halogen, the darker place where the shadow of the stem overlaps the shadow of the leaf.............

I actually did pick up some leaves that were not from the sweet gum.  Maple.

Linden.

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