Forget flowers. Long live leaves! (Show your leaf/foliage shots)

My leaf was still attached to the plant and my background was simply dark shadows behind sunlit leaf in early morning 😁 That is my favorite time of day and often produces photo ops I wouldn't consider otherwise. A similar situation from my first set is the group of tall thin leaves. I underexpose and then do additional tweaks in pp.

The perspective on the first and third + the chosen depth of field on these three make them highly attractive to me!

Exquisite artistry. I recently shot maple leaf seed pods on the tree, so I'm particularly in love with what you accomplished here.

Heavily processed 😀

An interesting thread. I'll throw a few in the pot. These are all captured in the natural setting where I found them but a few have been extricated and placed on artistic backdrops and "worked" in photoshop. It's easy to tell which are which.

Thank you for your kind words.

First signs of autumn by Photobygms, on Flickr
(Canon EOS 5D Mark IV - EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM)

Fall has arrived by Photobygms, on Flickr
(Canon PowerShot SX740 HS)

And a cold leaf 😂

Leaves in the snow by www.flickr.com/photos/photobygms/, on Flickr
(Canon EOS 6D Mark II - EF16-35mm f/4L IS USM)

Thanks - beautiful leaves with an interesting and strong glow! 👍 I think we've got similar plants like that around here as well, but I've never notices how much light they reflect. Tend to think they might give some interesting opportunities to play with the light at different times of day.

Wonderful shots - thanks for sharing these! They're all very different and beautiful in their own way. Love the combination of colors in the first one above, the frame-filling foliage in the second (we haven't seen too many like that yet...) and the wonderful light and simple but highly effective composition in the third. Very distinct and interesting ways of shooting leaves - excellent work!

Great thread!
Here's one of my efforts :

Regards,
Joe.

Thanks - that's very beautiful! Are those frozen? They have a really unique look to them that I can't quite classify.

Thank you.
These leaves were trapped in a frozen pond but I photographed them just as the ice had melted in the early afternoon.
They have also been given some "Orton" effect.

Regards,
Joe.

A gentle touch (in color) by simple.joy, on Flickr

Great timing, great eye. Beautiful photo!

I absolutely love how the visible grain elevates this! 👍 Excellent work and it reminds me that I've got to experiment with adding texture from time to time... if used tastefully it can have a similar effect in my opinion, however you need quite a bit of experience to do that, which I still lack.