Shots of nature looking up -no trees edition

Following the recent stories and invitation by Anne Bonfert, these days I’ve been paying attention to my environments focused on finding or making up interesting shots of nature, like always… but pointing with the camera up to the sky. I didn’t expect this to be easy, and in fact, it wasn’t! Especially because I wanted to go beyond shots of trees, which Anne and others already covered doing an excellent job that would be hard to imitate, let alone improve upon.

So, I share with you in this story my main shots of nature looking up, on natural subjects other than trees. For my tree-specific up-shots, go here:

Let’s go! Starting with a wild blackberry plant hanging from a tree:

A pine-looking plant, only half meter tall so I also had to lie down on the ground for this -just like for the fern in the lead photo.

OK strictly speaking this next one is a tree… but the point is the focus on the apple and the mistletoe:

A flowering plant growing out of a wall:

Late vines:

Orange Physalis fruits (I first wrote these were flowers, but thanks Inge E. Knudsen for the correction!) climbing a green fence:

Ivies climbing and covering the foot of a long-lost tree:

This looks like a tree (maybe a palm tree?) but it’s actually the 2 m tall stem and flower of an otherwise small plant:

This next one has a tree on it, but the focus was here on the fungi :-) This photo was very difficult to take, because there’s a stream of water right there so I didn’t have a solid place where to stand and stay down to capture the fungi. I shot literally over 10 photos until I got the good one:

That’s it. 10 photos shot pointing to the sky, to see nature like never before. Thanks to Anne Bonfert for the invitation to this interesting prompt. It wasn’t easy but I had a lot of fun in the process, and even learned some new skills, I think!

Here’s Anne’s article with the invitation:

I shot most of these photos in the same forest you see in my other stories, such as these:

Or just go here for a random photostory by me.

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