"How beautifully leaves grow old … "
"How beautifully leaves grow old.
How full of light and color are their last days."
John Burroughs (1837-1921)
Still seriously limited as to where and when in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania I am able to photograph the fall forests and streams, I now look to images of past autumns and, to the approaching autumn foliage in the Philadelphia (Southeastern Pennsylvania) area -- these in order to share the season with friends on NT.
Tunkhannock Creek, Pocono Mountains
American Beech Trees Provide the "Gold" (Pennypack Park, Philadelphia)
Path in Pennypack Park (Philadelphia)
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"How beautifully leaves grow old."
Beautiful as usual, AMac! It's a shame you're limited where you can go to see and photograph the beauty of the woods during the most beautiful (IMO) season. The colors don't last long, either. If I remember right, from living in the midwest, the leaves die and fall off in about a week or so.
So true - and here they have reached the end of their journey.
A wonderful, natural potpourri of shapes and shades and muted tones with a tiny but compelling splash of green!
Thanks Buzz.
Beautiful Mac, my favorite season of the year.
Past the peak up here, but still pretty. I walked one of the chair lines today, climbing towers and checking the switches. I remembered my camera today...
A beautifully spiritual shot Broliver!
No kidding - a true vista that draws the eye to the mountains set in mist - wonderful.
Great photo Brolly.
Mac,
I mentioned on the Friday picture article that I had gotten lucky with the light and had a few more shots, taken with the aid of bright, early morning sunlight. Here are some that I particularly liked.
First, is the one I put in the Friday article
This is one I took last week when the light was not very bright.
Thumbs up on this series TTGA.
The real eye catcher looks to be a Sugar Maple elegant! And of course, nature reflected on a body of water spiritual!
Thanks for your outstanding contribution to the discussion.
Great photos TTGA.
I definitely liked the first two best myself. Even though the colors weren't the dark red and orange of the Sugar Maple (of which we have a large number around here), the reflection on the water makes it special. It gives the impression of a still pond in the deep woods, that can only be reached by a long hike; something that Thoreau might have written about. Actually, the pond is stagnant water which, during the early summer, is a breeding ground for mosquitoes; and, when I took the shot, I was standing on the edge of M-50, a state highway. The thing I like so much about photography is that you can set a mood for a scene, not necessarily by what you put into a picture, but by what you leave out of it. If I had taken two steps back, the highway verge would have been visible and the mood would have been broken (and I'd have gotten run over by the semi coming down the road).
That hollow does, despite it's drawbacks, have great beauty. Several years ago, I was driving down that road in the early spring and saw a doe with a newborn fawn that was just standing up for the first time, right along the shoreline of the pond. Naturally, as with so many great photo opportunities, I had no camera with me.
"The thing I like so much about photography is that you can set a mood for a scene, not necessarily by what you put into a picture, but by what you leave out of it."
And that is it in a nutshell. Nature has created all of the beauty -- it is the nature photographer's objective to find and isolate the areas of perfection.
Has anyone been having problems viewing the pictures I've put up? I've just been getting blank spots where the pics should be and a notice from Ning that they couldn't be put up because of errors; yet, when I click on the little icon at the top left of where the pic should be, it comes up on a full screen. I'm not sure if others can see them and I'm the only one who can't. Checking something. OK, that tells me a great deal. If I sign out on Firefox and sign in on Chrome, the pictures come up just fine. Must be some kind of problem between Firefox and Ning. That's OK, as long as everybody else can see them, I don't need to. I know what they are.