Close up (4)

These are close-up images of plants and other subjects. Depending on the lenses and other equipment used, they were taken from fractions of an inch to a few feet from the subject.

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A rose "hip", or fruit of wild rose, after a late October snow.

Gold-orange lichen on sandstone in Theodore Roosevelt National Park (north unit), North Dakota, U.S.

Black & white photo of ragbag lichen, platismatia glauca, on cedar bark in Glacier National Park, Montana, U.S.

Foxtail grass, hordeum jubatum, after a brief shower, Badlands National Park, South Dakota, U.S.

Foxtail grass, hordeum jubatum, in early morning light.

A close-up photo of ferns in the shade of cedars and hemlocks in Glacier National Park.