Dead and Alive

Anyone who has followed my journal will have realised that I have a fascination with fern fronds. I found a punga (tree fern) with about 30 new fronds in it but the light was all wrong and I couldn't get enough contrast in the sky (I really do need to get a polarising filter). I will go back tomorrow at a different time and see what I can achieve in different light, but for today a very quick snap of the end of one life and the beginning of another.