A street full of colors

          Two blogs ago, your loyal blogger wrote about a conversation with an Ohio native about the changing of seasons here.

          It is amazing to note that just when the football season reaches roughly its

Greens, reds and yellows on the trees along our street.

halfway point, a weird thing happens in nature: The foliage changes colors and then stuff falls off trees. It happens everywhere, not just in Ohio (as was discussed in a blog in this space in 2012), but the colors seem to have a greater variety here and that prompted a session with the Nikon earlier this week.

          The results are here.

          Note the differences in the trees in the first image. A yellow tree, a red one in the distance and several greens. This image comes from the street we live on. The picture presented itself while your loyal blogger was walking Maggie, the non-barking Bassett.

    

Look at the greens and yellows together, like Bogie and Bacall or
 John Wayne and Bacall. Both are neat on their own, but when brought
 together, they are special.

      The red tree, by the way, resisted all efforts to capture a presentable close-up that reflects what it really looks like.

          This makes a point about the photographic art: Sometimes an image hits you in

Same tree as above, call this one
image 2 B.

the head and grabs your attention. Frequently a photographer spends great gobs of time looking for an image, but this was the product of an, “Oh, wow,” moment.

          The second image, from the yellow tree, shows individual leaves with both green and yellow coloring. Getting them to stand still was an issue. The little breeze that felt so good on a warm day moved the branches and leaves just enough to create a pain in the neck for a photographer.

  

The final image reflects the coming of the winter with the yellows, some reds and dull gray.

        The third image is kind of fun because the yellows and greens are there, but this time the dull gray of the naked branches is in the background.

 

          Hope you enjoy this and thanks for reading.