First, I got some cool shots of ferns opening up. Not quite sure what kind - might be bracken fern but I'm not 100% sure. Anyway, in these pictures the unfurling fern resembles the head of an elephant!
Also, the Pacific bleeding heart (Dicentra formosa) are beginning to bloom. They're quite small but are very lovely; since most plants sit below my tripod's lowest setting, however, they're difficult to photograph. Soon many more will be blooming and I'll be able to choose better settings (take a picture of a flower growing on an uphill slope from a trail, for example).
How could I resist another salmonberry picture? In this one, you can faintly see forest trees in the background. I had to use a somewhat narrow aperture to get that (f/14). This meant a long exposure (1/2 second, which in close-up photography is an eternity). Most ended up blurry due to the slightest of breezes, but I got one successful shot, and that's all it takes!!
Now, to the title - I used my wide-angle lens to take a picture of some licorice ferns (Polypodium glycyrrhiza) living on a tree trunk, as they often do. Feeling adventurous, I stopped all the way down to f/18 to get the ferns and tree trunk all in good focus. And it worked! There wasn't much of a breeze, either, which helped the ferns stay sharp. Even at f/18 the background is a bit mushy, but the important parts of the picture came out sharp, and I think it's a pretty good result overall.
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