Colours of your mind...

So... it has been a week for recovery... a week to get over the insanely long drive we volunteered ourselves to do last weekend and also one of photographic opportunities and reminders of the year approaching its's end...

Autumn always delights... the colours of the leaves and grasses glowing in the late afternoon sun and of Halloween pumpkins and bonfire night... Colours... I started the week looking at the changes in our Halloween jack-o-lanterns as they decayed...

Somehow they look more frightening the more they rot... the face becomes distorted into a hideous grotesque... 

Bonfire night also appeared on the calendar this week... I love fireworks but they can be tricky to photograph... what is needed is a tripod, lock the shutter open and cover the ens with the cap. Anticipate a burst of several fireworks; remove the cap at the start of this burst then replace when it ends. With a bit of practice you get this...

and this...

The multiple bursts fill the sky with colour and the slow shutter speed lets the sparkles shimmy and glow...

But, you can see... colour dominates the shots above... and the colour is gold. So I started to think, what other colours are around at this time of year? We are used to the leaves changing, but what else. So I went for a walk around my village looking for colours... not paint but things in the natural world...

and I found...

The extraordinary hues of this rotting fungus... not just browns and oranges but purples and blues...

My own personal favourite of the week... a rusty shed... But look at the colours again... yellows, reds, oranges, blues, blacks... iron oxide...

same subject as above... couldn't leave either of them out... I love the pinks on the left...

Greengage plums decomposing on the tree... gain the subtleties of reds and peach and exquisite... especially when compared to the grays of the twigs that support them...

Lichens on a tree trunk... White, yellows, greens, browns... subtle...nature...

A last vestige of photosynthesis before winter... bindweed absorbs those last days of sun...

Of course, I pointed my trusty Nikon D2Xs and Nikkor 60mm f2.8 AFD macro lens at the obvious as well...

an old favourite... Fagus sylvatica  the beech hedge... the variety of colours here is wonderful... just look and look again...

and who says grasses are dull? Phragmites australis - Norfolk or common reed. The change between summer green and winter brown is delight

and an old favourite... Betula pendula - birch greens and yellows against a blue sky...

and finally...

the crimsons of Viburnum opulus - Guelder rose...

Whilst walking around the fields I was also taken with the recently flooded washlands and the fast accumulating wildfowl...

No doubt I shall revisit this scene again and again this winter...

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On the business front I have had a booking for a series of tutorials and made an agreement with a local business to promote Alex JP Scott Photography which should hopefully yield some new shoots. Keep an eye on that...

Also...

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Well, with that I will bid you all a farewell for the week...

TTFN