Have you figured out how it was done? If not, I’ll give one last clue. Click on the photos to open them in a larger view. Then look closely around each leaf. Do you see it? Last chance before I tell you how it’s done.
Ready? Ok. We found each of these leaves hovering right in front of us along the trail. They had been falling at one point, but when we found them they’d at least temporarily stopped their falling and just hovered there. How can that be? Well, the woods are full of spiders and many spiders build webs between trees along the trail. I’ve often walked right into these spider webs, sometimes later finding the spider crawling on my clothing. Well, in this case a leaf happed to get caught by some of the spider silk, and the silk was strong enough to stop the falling of the leaf, so now it hovers there, resisting gravity, slowing swaying or twirling in any light breeze. Each time I found a leaf like this I took advantage of it and created a few photographs to show the leaf hovering in the air.
See? You don’t need any fancy gear to capture a falling leaf in a photo. Just a bit of luck and good observational skills finding those rare leaves that have been captured by spider silk. 😁
