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50 Pictures of Leaves Up Close

Updated on November 11, 2011

Have you ever looked at leaves closely? I know I did during biology classes in school but that was such a long time ago. Today, armed with my camera, I began my leafy adventure in the gardens around me. My, oh my, and what a fascinating time I had!

This photo gallery of leaves is intended to capture them up close. Guess what happened? The leaves magically became alive to me! I took one shot and I just couldn’t stop.

Also, I give you the permission to download all these wonderful leaves for FREE! Yes, you can use them if you want to. May I just ask you to please keep my name on the photograph? Indeed, nature is a wonderful gift indeed and it is a blessing to be able to share it to the world.

Photos of Leaves

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Taking pictures of leaves up close is a magical experience. Loved the combination of greens and yellows in this one.This image of leaves makes me feel calm.Aaah, I feel vibrantly green gazing on this tiny leaves.This photo made me reflect that there is beauty in our differences and variety and yet in essence somehow there is something similar.Looking at images of leaves will make someone want to be a botanist someday.  Are you one of them?Savor these dark green leaves.How about some light green leaves?Leaves need sunlight to produce food. Aaah, I can feel the warmth of the sun in this photo.The sun on the leaves gives me a  warm feeling inside.The leaves are not entirely green.  I like this variety too!
Taking pictures of leaves up close is a magical experience. Loved the combination of greens and yellows in this one.
Taking pictures of leaves up close is a magical experience. Loved the combination of greens and yellows in this one. | Source
This image of leaves makes me feel calm.
This image of leaves makes me feel calm. | Source
Aaah, I feel vibrantly green gazing on this tiny leaves.
Aaah, I feel vibrantly green gazing on this tiny leaves. | Source
This photo made me reflect that there is beauty in our differences and variety and yet in essence somehow there is something similar.
This photo made me reflect that there is beauty in our differences and variety and yet in essence somehow there is something similar. | Source
Looking at images of leaves will make someone want to be a botanist someday.  Are you one of them?
Looking at images of leaves will make someone want to be a botanist someday. Are you one of them? | Source
Savor these dark green leaves.
Savor these dark green leaves. | Source
How about some light green leaves?
How about some light green leaves? | Source
Leaves need sunlight to produce food. Aaah, I can feel the warmth of the sun in this photo.
Leaves need sunlight to produce food. Aaah, I can feel the warmth of the sun in this photo. | Source
The sun on the leaves gives me a  warm feeling inside.
The sun on the leaves gives me a warm feeling inside. | Source
The leaves are not entirely green.  I like this variety too!
The leaves are not entirely green. I like this variety too! | Source

STUDY OF PLANTS & MORE

The study of plants, a branch of Biology, is called botany, plant science or plant biology. Botany is a field of Life Sciences which focuses on the classification and physical characteristic of plants.

If you want to study plants someday, you will be called a botanist.

If you want to grow plants, you will be called a horticulturist.

And if you want to study the interaction of plants and animals in an environment, you will be called and ecologist or environmentalist.

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PLANT'S UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS

Green plants play a very important role. Without it there would be no life on planet earth. Animals have the ability to move around so they can search for the food that their bodies require. But plants are different! They cannot move. They just stay in one place. Therefore, one of their unique characteristics is they make their own food!

HOW?

Using the leaves of course! Leaves are the major site of food production for plants. They undergo a process called photosynthesis which means “to put together with light.” The leaves use sunlight and the chemical chlorophyll (found in leaves) to turn water and carbon dioxide gas into sugar and oxygen gas. The sugar is then used to give plant energy so it can grow. What an amazing process!

Therefore, sunlight is so important to plants. If you look closely, the leaves grow in many patterns so they catch as much light as they can.

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COLOR OF LEAVES

A brown color leaf means the leaf is already dead or well, still dying.

Yellow and orange leaves are made possible because of the chemicals called carotenoids found in leaves. They are actually present in small amounts but when the green color starts to fade, they become more visible.

Red and purple leaves are made by chemicals called anthocyanins. This usually occurs when the weather changes in the fall season. Another reason for a leaf to look red is due to leftover food or glucose.

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IN APPRECIATION FOR LEAVES AND PLANTS

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.-Martin Luther

I hope you enjoyed these 50 pictures and images of leaves as much as I have enjoyed capturing them on camera.

I breathe in oxygen and thank God that there are plants around us. Imagine what would happen if plants could not turn the sun’s energy into food, we would have no food. We would have no oxygen.

In remembering this process, I am once again a witness to the marvelous creation of nature. Truly it is a magnificent thing to behold.

And I am deeply grateful.

BY: MICHELLE SIMTOCO

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