Underfoot

[FlyingSquirrel]

Thanks for creating this awesome thread! I have some macro 'underfoot' pics I'd like to share, most of which have been laying at the bottom of the pit and I probably was never going to share...hopefully not too many to be considered thread hijacking...some of these I did up real quick in LR since I don't have the time to use PS at the moment.

[bnnrcn]

It is a kind of dead leaf with nice colours Frank,if you look at the bottom left corner there is another one.And if you look at the bottom middle,there is a leaf with red lines,I think that is the alive version and it gets nice colours while drying out.I don't know the name of the plant,but I remember stopping for shooting because of those nice colours

Colourful Binnur, but I'm not quite sure what the orange/red object is in the middle? Can you tell us a bit about your image?

[FrankMi]

Thanks for creating this awesome thread! I have some macro 'underfoot' pics I'd like to share, most of which have been laying at the bottom of the pit and I probably was never going to share...hopefully not too many to be considered thread hijacking...some of these I did up real quick in LR since I don't have the time to use PS at the moment.

Wow Matt, these are all really good! Sorry I missed this when you posted it. I particularly like the pattern, colors, and detail in the second one but they are all great!

[FrankMi]

These are a type of lichen that is common on rocky soils of the Canadian Shield. Note the brown pine needle for scale. Here is another that I always refer to as reindeer moss; it absorbs water like a sponge and releases it slowly, providing a handy substrate for seedling grasses, trees, forbs. Lichens are quite literally the first "plants" to colonize bare rock. When I have canoed this area in the past, I would collect dried reindeer moss and dried paper birch bark. Between the two I knew that I could start a campfire anytime anywhere.

Nice capture Randy! Delicate, yet strong enough to make a living on bare rock. Fascinating.