I’m not quite knowledgeable about working with light in photography as I hope to be someday, but my intent here was to capture the brightness of this beech relative to the leaf-less trees surrounding it.
A top a 50 ft pillar of shale, an old pine sits, surrounded by a flourishing community of lichens and mosses. As I photographed the stalked, bowl-like lichens, I noticed the dazzling complexity of the community at the base of the tree.
It’s now the season when clothing is covered in seeds after a short walk through the woods. How has gene flow been influenced by the invention of sweatshirts in plants that disperse seeds by attachment to mammalian fur?