Nurture Photography Challenge - Brown...

Nurture Photography Challenge... Purple/Halloween

Got to love my wide-angle lens... 

Taken in Stratford upon Avon cemetery.

A wide-angle is great for not only including a lot in a scene, but also distortion.  What you have to do though is get much closer than you think is right to the subject in the foreground - I was almost on top of these flowers.

ABC Wednesday and Nurture Photography...

O is for...

Out and about in October with my camera. In the Arboretum.  Add atmospheric mist and sublime autumnal colours.  Nothing.  Better.

Also linking to...

Nurture Photography Autumn Photo Challenge - Orange/Warmth

I love the colour orange - there's something so warm and cheerful about it, plus there are so many variations of it that there's something for everyone. It ranges from the subtlest burnt orange to the most screaming-out-loud-running-from-the-room-with-your-eyes-bleeding-oh-my-god-I-shouldn't-have-worn-this-top-I-look-like-a-space-hopper pumpkin orange.  What's not to like?

Orange Squash...
I used the unedited version of this for a Scavenger Hunt
t'other week.  Here I've warmed it up and added some
contrast, plus a bit of judicious cropping.

Cobweb and berries...
This is from the Scavenger Hunt too...
taken on a misty morning in the cemetery.

Chinese lantern...
Note the difference direct sunlight can make to colours.
This was taken shooting into the sun to get that glow.

Street lamp...
A little rest for the eyes with
the welcoming glow of a sodium street lamp
on a misty autumn path...

Autumn glow...

And to finish - orange at full throttle :O)

Nurture Photography/The Weekend in Black and White...

This week the challenge is Yellow or Light...

Here's David with some nice yellow trees at Batsford Garden Centre

(damn fine light that day too...).

...and some yellow leaves with autumnal mist and trees.

And for The Weekend in Black and White...

St Eadelburgha's Church at Broadway in The Cotswolds...

Plus some headstones...

... and some cobwebby angels taken in the fog last weekend.

Green/Journey (Nurture Photography Challenge)...

So anyway,  this is how we're dressing in England this autumn... :O) 

Musing on photographic journeys I'm amazed to look back on how far I've come since I first picked up a digital camera - I'm also constantly kicking myself for not getting the image I have in my mind onto the screen.  The thing is to keep trying, keep going, and keep learning.

A bit of a different take on autumn these - they are shots of Fiona Harrison who asked me to take some pics of her seriously fabulous 18th C style dress - the wonderful setting is the graveyard of All Saints Church, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire (very nice coffee shop too).