If these are truly fiddlehead ferns I'd hurry and get them into a skillet with a little butter - they are quite delicious! Your shot is quite beautiful and the vignette effect worked perfectly.
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Very nice capture Wendell and the detail light plus composition is stunning and it is interesting as when you just look normally at a fern you miss a lot but take a close up photo and you see how stunning natures art real is my friend ,Great looking capture well done Wendell.
That's a delightful image! I enlarged it before I read your description and suddenly realized they were ferns! It looks like they are telling each other secrets.