replication and shadow

[OT from cottage renovations]

(note: these images are from three weekends ago)

if the images that follow seem repetetive I offer no excuse, there are some of which I just can't get enough. 

(click through these thumbnails for higher resolution images)

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Church grounds

when the leaves fall from a tree, how many will land upright? 
and of those, how many will have light passing through them just when somebody happens by to see it? 

replication

the outline of the leaf's vein structure replicates the shape of an entire tree, smaller in scale but no less perfect in design (is this not the essence of fractal?) or better yet, providing an example in decaying cellulose of how one might execute the image in stained glass. 

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sometimes shadow falls onto a leaf rather than through it; either way there's still a host of detail to observe and appreciate.  click on through and you'll see even more. 

leaf shadow