Autumn Photoshoot
Today we saw real signs of the changing of the seasons.
Some of these pictures have come out like Rembrandt oil paintings (slightly fuzzy, and look best when you stand further away), and some are crisp and clear. I think it is the difference between the Auto Focus, and the zoom where I control the focusing. I definitely need more practice at these closeups!
I was wandering round thinking 'gosh, there is nothing to shoot', but then I noticed how subtly beautiful the light is, and how small and precise all the detail is. No huge flamboyant flowers. Instead everything has gone tastefully delicate. Hope I managed to capture it...
Those exquisite mint green pinecones are covered in dew and are each about an inch long (Auto Focus)
Ripe and unripe Elderberries (manual zoom and focus)
Unripe rosehips, spider's web, metal fence and buddleia in the background (manual zoom and focus)
Pinecone, 2 inches long. (manual zoom and focus from about 3 feet)
Mushroom or toadstool? Autofocus
Same variety, still growing. Are those mouse nibbles? Autofocus
Another decapitiated mushroom, gills and frilly edges. Auto focus
Dew on the privet hedge (manual zoom and focus)
Buddleia spikes once the flowers have gone over
Another pinecone. this one is 2 inches long. Manual focus
The trunk of one of Julia's palms, covered with pine needle that must have blown there from a nearby tree
Resin gleaming in the sun
This hydrangea was fuchsia pink a couple of weeks ago
This spider is about half an inch long. They grow bigger in our garden, where the population is up in the 100s... Sometimes the webs are over a yard across. (manual zoom and focus)
The last of the roses (manual)
and a ripe hip for every rose (manual)
ripe blackberries scrambling through the shrubbery (manual)
low sun (at 11 am! lol)
Big pinecones (zoomed in, from a distance of maybe 4 yards) The cones are about 3 inches tall
The cherry tree avenue
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