Unfurling Fern Fiddlehead with Egg

An unfurling fern fiddlehead sits curled in the frame with a single small yellow insect egg attached to its stem. The fronds are bright green against a soft gray background, lit evenly and recorded with a very shallow depth of field that blurs the foreground and background. Tiny glandular hairs and granular surface texture are visible around the egg, which punctuates the spiral like a small bead.