"Fall's Full Spectrum"
Disclaimer: These leaves are exactly as I found them,
on a lawn at Seaman's Neck Park in Seaford, NY.
When I first came upon this semi-circular arrangement of leaves the other day, I knew I had a good photographic opportunity. Their random placement, and the variety of colors they represent, appear like a painter's palette - one consisting of the full range of autumnal colors. From deep red - and through many hues of pink, orange, yellow and green - down to over-tones or hints of violet and blue; and with generous samples of browns and white - for contrast and balance - a full palette it is.
This was not my first choice for today's "Picture of the Day." I preferred a more morose arrangement, at first; but owing to two dissenting opinions (and after yesterday's dark picture, and my equally dark mood late last night and this morning) I chose this more upbeat photo. I may post the other two choices that I had in mind, or I may not: It's too soon to say.
Personally, I love and I hate this image. I love the colors, and the fortuitous arrangement of the fallen leaves; what I hate is the background, the surface they fell onto, that all-too-common sight in suburbia: "The Lawn." I think that I'd even prefer to see these leaves against a backdrop of asphalt, than this man-made and managed 'green screen' - which is seen all too often, for my tastes. It would have been much better to have come upon this arrangement of spent factories of chlorophyll on a well-worn foot path in the woods, rather than in the midst of a goose-dropping-laced field of uniformity. But that's just me...
Links:
"Fall's Full Spectrum" prints available here.
More about Seaman's Neck Park.
Camera Data
Canon
Canon EOS 5D
1/32 second
F/4.0
35 mm
50
Nov 23, 2010, 12:58:31 PM
Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
Canon EOS 5D
1/32 second
F/4.0
35 mm
50
Nov 23, 2010, 12:58:31 PM
Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
