The color and the curve that caught my eye

In Great Hills Park on November 4th I was walking back up the trail toward where I’d parked my car when a bit of bright color caught my eye. It was a wood sorrel flower (Oxalis drummondii) in a bed of new oak leaves (Quercus spp.) adjacent to the remains of an Ashe juniper (Juniperus ashei) that was contorted in a way that’s not uncommon for these trees. The roundedly V-shaped leaflets are those of wood sorrel plants, and there are also some leaves of a greenbrier vine (Smilax bona-nox) mixed in with the young oak leaves at the left.

I’m not much for wholesale manipulation of photographs, but while processing this picture I accidentally hit a key that produced a negative of the image. I liked it enough as an abstraction in its own right that I decided to let you have a look at it via the thumbnail below.

So now it’s fee fie faux color,
Click and see what you’ll discover.

© 2015 Steven Schwartzman