While walking in Bear Swamp last week looking for orchids, I came across a Striped Maple aka Goosefoot Maple-Acer pensylvanicum, just about a foot tall and laying on the ground. It was near the entrance and I guess that possibly The Trustees of Reservations manage that spot to keep the path open, causing the tree to stay small. The leaves were variegated and I liked the patterns that gave this particular leaf an abstract look.
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I don’t know what was going on with botanists when they dropped one of the n’s from what should be pennsylvanicum. You did a good job keeping all the leaf’s details in focus.
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Maybe one person misspelled it and his or her colleagues didn’t want cause embarrassment. Focus was my focus in composing. Thanks!
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One of my favorite trees! I just wrote about the Striped Maple on my nature blog NJUrbanForest.com – https://njurbanforest.com/2020/07/24/plants-of-new-jersey-6-striped-maple/
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They are one of the first trees I learned.
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It’s like a map!
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Yes. Where’s Waldo?
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The color’s the attraction for me. That deep blue-green is lovely.
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I was immediately attracted to the contrast in color as well as the detailed venation. It was perfect light, overcast and in a wooded space, for captured that green.
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I find myself drawn in to study the finest vein patterns; they’re like tiny mazes. BTW, when I first saw your title, I misread it as”Striped Male Abstract,” and I opened it with some trepidation. I was rather relieved to see that it didn’t continue in that vein.
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Spelling/grammar makes a big difference and I am glad that I didn’t do that typo. I misread titles all the time. In a hurry too often.
I was at first attracted by the color but as I kept focusing closer found the venation to be even more interesting.
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I really like what your eyes sees and what your camera records, Steve. Focusing on fine details of nature can be such a wonderful, magical thing, and it can be akin to seeing for the very first time.
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Thank you, Pete! Coming from a fellow detail photographer I appreciate that. It is exciting coming upon something we’ve never seen before. Happened to me twice today wandering with the camera in the backyard.
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