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Photographing the exquisite Looping Vine Tendril- part 4

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In previous posts I wrote about my excursion on March 20, 2025, to a local University Riparian Preserve where I found plenty of vine tendrils.

I took the FEATURED IMAGE (f/5.6, 1/250s, ISO 200) with a macro lens (105 macro from Nikon). The image was illuminated with an off-camera flash through a diffuser, to freeze the subject and to isolate it against a dark background. It portrays the looping tendrils spreading their curves in the downward direction (towards the ground) and holding on to a fence. The Fibonacci spiral it forms aids the composition.

A short spring project

I have written several posts on the benefits of working in projects and series.

The Looping Vine Tendril is my first botanical project of 2025, and so far it’s the only one. I haven’t been as inspired as I used to be, and spring is soon going to be over. May tends to be windy, dry. And the plants are bracing for the scorching summer. I have done very little photography lately as a result.

Previous posts on this project:

  1. Photographing the exquisite Looping Vine Tendrill;
  2. Photographing the exquisite Looping Vine Tendrill, part 2;
  3. Photographing the exquisite Looping Vine Tendril, part 3.

Photographs associated with this project:

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13 responses to “Photographing the exquisite Looping Vine Tendril- part 4”

  1. shoreacres Avatar
    shoreacres

    I love this new addition. The combination of the curving tendril and the angular fence is perfect — it’s so interesting and visually pleasing. Your series has had an effect on the way I see the world. Every time I come across especially complex tendrils, I think about your photos.

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    1. Alessandra Chaves Avatar
      Alessandra Chaves

      I have began to notice tendrils a lot more after I began this project. Before, I rarely noticed them.

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  2. Steve Schwartzman Avatar
    Steve Schwartzman

    This one on your series offers the greatest contrast between the plant spiral and the (mostly) straight wires. There’s even a tiny binding “tendril” at each intersection of two wires.

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    1. Alessandra Chaves Avatar
      Alessandra Chaves

      Yes, it’s a cool thong that’s happening between the tendrils and the wire. It is funny how the tendrils grab onto basically anything.

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      1. Steve Schwartzman Avatar
        Steve Schwartzman

        Many vines, once they reach the tip of whatever they’re climbing on, keep groping out in space hoping to find something else to grab a hold of. We’ve got some kind of milkweed family vine on our back deck railing doing that now.

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      2. Alessandra Chaves Avatar
        Alessandra Chaves

        It seems like a lot of trial and error on their part.

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      3. Steve Schwartzman Avatar
        Steve Schwartzman

        We could make an analogy to human behavior.

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      4. Alessandra Chaves Avatar
        Alessandra Chaves

        I have taken on wall climbing in the gym recently and as a beginner I often find myself reaching out to the next thing to grab without much planning. Just like the tendrils.

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  3. howg2211 Avatar
    howg2211

    The tendrils are really lovely images. Weather and seasons can definitely enhance or detract from creativity, both because of what it does to our subjects and to ourselves.

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    1. Alessandra Chaves Avatar
      Alessandra Chaves

      Thank you. They are beginning to dry out now here in California.

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