3 ferns

I remember taking these photographs as clear as day. This was back when I worked nights. I had gotten off of work at 7am and went to a local university campus where they have beautiful giant oak trees. This seemed to me the closest I could get to nature within the city at this point in time.

I found these ferns growing off the trunk of one of the oak trees, and decided to photograph them up close (something I don't normally do).

I took the negatives to the lab I was using at the time and developed them, then printed these one by one and then hand tinted them for the wonderful blue tone you see here.

~Shannon Murray