Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: Maple leaf

(+5 insets!) Hello everyone! I hope that this autumn season has been colorful and full of beautiful pictures for you. Last year at this time I was deep inside a hole of gloom, the reaction to a summer RV trip with a series of hellacious problems. Autumn photography was the last thing on my mind…I wouldn't even go on my morning walks up and down the driveway! But this year I'm bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, full of creativity and feeling wonderful! It's been great to experience this beautiful season through my lens again. Although I could ask to go on a fall photo drive, I haven't yet and I don't know if I'll get around to it. Why ever not??! Well, my experiment of showing the season by photographing fall colors in our city's parking lots has been so successful that one day's photography has yielded dozens of "winner" images to present. The fact is, pictures taken must be viewed, evaluated and processed, and there are only so many hours in one day. I have bloated folders to go through from our incredible and happy 3-month RV trip around Oregon on this Covid summer and it may be a better choice to work on those pictures instead of taking more. That seems wise to me! Today's Pictures Here, then, is set #4 of 6, of fall beauty in Medford parking lots! My main picture is a gorgeous burnt-orange maple leaf I found lying on the cement. It has such lovely details that I decided to make it my literal star of the day. Set in a square format, a darkened background with some texture and a vignette heightened the outrageous color of the leaf. The insets turned out successfully too…the first shows the edge of a curling leaf festooned with a refracted droplet. Unbeknownst to me at the time, I'd captured a detailed little gnat next to a pair of bokeh spotlights, woo hoo! Next is yet another pair of gingko leaves that look like golden ballerinas dancing against the blue sky. After that picture is an image that evokes the feeling of autumn's warmth with a pair of orange maple leaves against a branch and leaves all around. Following that is a refracted droplet on colorful, droplet-covered leaves and plenty of bokeh to enjoy. And finally, I spied this decorous leaf amidst a tree still green and merely considering the implication of fall. I couldn't help taking a picture and hope you love the colors and texture as much as I do! :) I hope all of you have a warm, dry and comfortable day! Let us all do what we can to dial down the tension of the current wave of covid cases that are sweeping the world right now. Take care of yourselves, please!! And finally, thanks for your visits and comments, favorites and of course, your delightful sense of community. Great photography and info on your pages, people! Keep up the AWESOME!! :) Explored on 11/12/20; highest placement #3.

2 more pictures in notes above! :) I am about to fall asleep from sheer exhaustion!! I'm such a baby! :D I haven't been on my bike for about six weeks and I'm totally out of shape for riding. So of course, when Steve and I decided to go on a bike ride today, we didn't go a reasonable distance like a 10 or 15 mile ride. Instead, we went on a 28-mile ride with enough hills on the first half that I was trembling from the exertion! (How embarrassing! :D) We rode from a little town near us called Gold Hill to a popular tourist town, Jacksonville, and back again...and wow...my poor body is calling for a strike and wants me to go to sleep and rest from all of this activity! :D *yawn* However, we really did have a lovely time and enjoyed the beautiful autumn landscape along the way. In Jacksonville, we stopped and had lunch and iced coffee, and then rode over to the library there, which had many stunning maple trees in front, covered with leaves of all the autumn colors. We had a wonderful time taking pictures, and this one is my favorite, a fallen beauty lit up by the sun! Emily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell. Wikipedia: Emily Brontë Explored on October 21, 2013. Highest placement, page 3.

I loved the color of this beautiful leaf, so dramatic! Do you know why leaves change color? Wiki has some very nice information about it: Autumn leaf color is a phenomenon that affects the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs by which they take on, during a few weeks in the autumn season, various shades of red, yellow, purple, and brown. The phenomenon is commonly called autumn colours or autumn foliage in British English and fall colors, fall foliage, or simply foliage in American English. In some areas of Canada and the United States, "leaf peeping" tourism is a major contribution to economic activity. This tourist activity occurs between the beginning of color changes and the onset of leaf fall. There is a detailed explanation of why the leaves change color. Very interesting and worth reading!

This tree's leaves were just turning yellow, and I found some that had very pretty colors to share! Oh dear, I just don't have the energy for an interesting write up...it's time for bed...:D