PlantFiles Pictures: Paperbark Maple, Paper Bark Maple (Acer griseum), 1 by Equilibrium

Equilibrium wrote:
Why thank you! I can't take credit though. I shoot on automatic with automatic focus and I have good editing software. My vision is so poor I can't even see what shows up in the preview screen. I download at home and needless to say I do a lot of cropping and deleting of images.

Good luck on the leaves in the bottom left hand corner of that photo! I crawled around on my hands and knees looking for a plant stake that might tell me what that was and never did find anything but I did get a nice hawthorn needle stuck in my flip flop that went into my foot. If you find out what that is, let me know.

Here's my favorite photo from that weekend. I took over 1200 photos that weekend and out the gate I deleted 600. Of the remaining 600, I deleted about another 200 and from there I ended up with about 6 photographs that I was pretty proud of. Not great odds but I guess with me it is always going to be quantity and cross my fingers and hope for the best. I don't know why I like this photo so much but I do and it had nothing to do with the nonexistant skill set of the photographer... we're talking all I did was click and I got this-