Frost in the Shadows
Frost in the Shadows
Cold nights and warm days, the frost lingers in the shadows. This palette of amber, russet and slate blue is most pleasing.
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Oh, Autumn
Oh, Autumn
Unfiltered except for the blurred vignetting in Instagram. It’s almost over, but what a way to go out on a sunny blue sky day.
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Upsidedownsideup
Upsudedownsideup
Leaves, underwater, above water, reflections, shadows.
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Point of Clarity
Point of Clarity
The shadows from wildflowers on rough newsprint drawing paper, cool shadows and warm highlights, almost look like an abstract pattern but for the clearly outlined stems in the center.
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Gilded Youth
Gilded Youth
Newly-unfurled pin oak leaves are edged with gold-turning-green and strung with gilt-beaded catkins.
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Burnished
Burnished
Burnished by frost and bitter wind, they will hold to the tree in defiance of winter.
This little cluster of leaves hangs at eye level outside my studio window. A reminder, perhaps?
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Cardinal Camouflage II
Cardinal Camouflage II
Female cardinals need camouflage too, and this lady has chosen a suitable backdrop of dry river birch leaves and just a few from the burning bush, which is still burning at the moment. The male cardinal modeled his backdrop just the other day.
But just so you can see the photo I really wanted, here is the slightly blurry one of the cardinal in the posture I most associate with cardinals, but the wind gusted just a bit and my camera lost its focus point.
Darn, why did the wind have to gust at just that moment?
I’ll be photographing out this window all day if the cardinals visit this feeder all winter. They actually have several nests in the very tall Norway spruce that’s about ten feet from the window, with the feeder just in front at the foot of it. We may be seeing cardinal photos all winter!
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Cardinal Camouflage
Cardinal Camouflage
A bright male cardinal is still camouflaged against the fallen leaves, but not for long.
Very little snow here, and none in their favorite feeding space surrounded by the spruce, river birch, azalea and burning bushes.
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Not Fast Enough
Not turning fast enough!
The leaves aren’t changing fast enough for me so I did a little work on them. A Virginia Creeper vine grew up my deck post and while all the rest of it is turning it characteristic scarlet to red-violet, I’ve been waiting for this to turn red so I can photograph the light through it. It’s still green, so I photographed it anyway because I liked the way the leaves cast clear shadows on each other, and also tried it in black and white where it looks like a puzzle; these are below. And then I skewed the colors in Photoshop! I’ll make those leaves change when I want them to!
Bits and Pieces in actual color.
In black and white.
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Beauty and the Beast
Impressive
The tender leaf, the fearsome thorn, on the same branch, sprouting from the same spot.
Once more, the thorny locust, this time a sapling, in spring. For perspective, the thorns are about 2.5″ long. In spring they are softer and will bend a bit, not until winter do they develop their full strength, but if pressed straight on from the point they will do some damage. I did not test them.
Note the faint spiderweb above, and how tiny the spider must be to have spun that silk.
A branch of thorns and leaves.
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Spring Sunshine
Spring Sunshine
My geraniums on the windowsill are lovin’ it!
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Colorful Debris
Colorful Debris
Cleaning up out in the yard.
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Don’t Be Shy
Don’t Be Shy
One pear leaf had a different idea from all the rest, but was a little shy about showing off.
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Autumn Lights
Autumn Lights
Simply so beautiful, just the right moment as the sun shone directly down the street, illuminating the layers of birch, burning bush, azalea and forsythia leaves, the pavement of the street in shadow providing the perfect slate blue background, the birch twigs a silhouette. I’m not sure what reflected onto the sensor to create the two circles on the left, one with a branch silhouetted into it but that’s beautiful too.
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A New Leaf
A New Leaf
The maple tree has seriously leafed out, and the new bright green leaves are lit by late afternoon sun and seem to glow.
Reaching for Spring
Reaching for Spring
The daffodils sprouted—today! I saw the leaf litter was lifted a bit yesterday, but no trace of green. Today, the sun touched the tips; the crocused, squills and tulips had also pushed aside the leaves but none looked so much like fingers reaching for the light as the new daffodils.
Field of Leaves
Field of Leaves
The leaves are still colorful in the morning sun, settling inches deep on my picnic table.
Autumn Yellow and Blue
Autumn Yellow and Blue
Another overcast rainy day with a blue cast to the light, reflected on the wet leaves and filtering through the mist. The shapes and colors blend so it almost looks like an abstract pattern.
Another Rainy Day
Another Rainy Day.
Just a little light illuminates the drops waiting to fall from sodden branches.
Autumn Pattern
Autumn Patterns.
I often need a image for design that is less representational than a photos, and autumn is often one of the subjects in need. Much as I’d love to do a painting I’d rarely be paid for the amount of work that goes into one. I’ve been photographing the leaves in our conjoined back yards and they are lovely but what I’m photographing is much the same as what I photographed last year. So for the sake of experimentation I thought I’d play around with a few images, and this one turned out very much like something I’d use. Photshop filters don’t always work out the way I want, but with a little preparation in color saturation and contrast, the cutout filter worked beautifully.
Autumn Lights
Autumn Lights
Simply so beautiful, just the right moment as the sun shone directly down the street, illuminating the layers of birch, burning bush, azalea and forsythia leaves, the pavement of the street in shadow providing the perfect slate blue background, the birch twigs a silhouette. I’m not sure what reflected onto the sensor to create the two circles on the left, one with a branch silhouetted into it but that’s beautiful too.
October Rain, 2011
October Rain.
Water droplets sit on colored leaves. It was indeed very rainy, but the colors in this photo are the classic autumn harvest colors as well.
Backyard Abstract
Backyard Abstract
Shiny violet and wild strawberry leaves, with a few goldenrod and phlox leaves added in, look like a mosaic, even in black and white, perhaps especially in black and white.
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