November Colors

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It was cool & overcast in the Garden State today, so this afternoon I decided it was high time I tear myself away from this infernal machine for a while and enjoy the fall colors before they’re gone.

I don’t have a fancy camera or a particularly good eye for composition, but with rampant beauty all around, a 4GB SD card, and a copy of Photoshop, I couldn’t hardly go wrong. These are my 12 favorites out of 161 shots.

The camera is just a little point & shoot Canon PowerShot A570 IS. The images are mostly unchanged except for minor color/contrast correction, a couple of crops, and a little bit of sharpening.

What an amazing world we live in, huh? Hope you enjoy them.

P.S. Click on the landscape oriented photos to see the larger version (portrait oriented versions are already full size)

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18 comments

reine.de.tout Nov 6, 2010 6:58:36pm

CL, I don’t see the photos, and when I click on when, I get the spinning wheel of death - in other words, they don’t load. Argh.

We were in Tenn, Ky, WV, Maryland, DC, VA, NC week before last; saw some color, and it was beautiful.

Would love to see yours … just can’t get them to load.

CuriousLurker Nov 6, 2010 7:04:40pm

re: #1 reine.de.tout

Argh—thanks for the heads up! *headdesk*

I previously had a redirect on that web site that would send everyone but me elsewhere and I forgot to remove it before posting the page.

Can you see them now?

reine.de.tout Nov 6, 2010 7:10:16pm

re: #2 CuriousLurker

YES.
BEAUTIFUL.

Interesting Times Nov 6, 2010 7:11:05pm

re: #2 CuriousLurker

Can you see them now?

I can :) Love the freaky military-camo patterns in the third pic!

_{Hope it doesn’t mean the tree’s diseased though…}

CuriousLurker Nov 6, 2010 7:11:19pm

re: #3 reine.de.tout

Yay! And thank you. ;o)

reine.de.tout Nov 6, 2010 7:15:05pm

re: #4 publicityStunted

I can :) Love the freaky military-camo patterns in the third pic!

_{Hope it doesn’t mean the tree’s diseased though…}

Some trees do that. This appears to be some sort of sycamore. Eucalyptus does this, some elms (we have a drake elm that will do this). The tree is fine.

My mom could take leaves like this, or branches with leaves on them, and make the most gorgeous arrangements, just from whatever she picked up in the yard.
*sigh* I didn’t inherit that talent. Makes me miss my mom a lot.

CuriousLurker Nov 6, 2010 7:18:31pm

re: #4 publicityStunted

I can :) Love the freaky military-camo patterns in the third pic!

_{Hope it doesn’t mean the tree’s diseased though…}

It’s not diseased. It’s probably in the crepe myrtle family as they have bark like that, but I honest;y can’t remember what it looks like in the spring when it’s blooming (and I haven’t the slightest clue what the names of most of the trees around here are anyway).

It’s really astonishing how drastically some of them transform through the seasons. I go nuts with the camera every spring too, heh.

CuriousLurker Nov 6, 2010 7:20:39pm

re: #6 reine.de.tout

Well thank goodness someone knows something about trees! Oh, how I wish I had the talent your mom did. *sigh*

reine.de.tout Nov 6, 2010 7:20:55pm

re: #7 CuriousLurker

Too many brances for crape myrtle, I think.
I think it’s some sort of sycamore.

reine.de.tout Nov 6, 2010 7:22:14pm

re: #9 reine.de.tout

Too many brances for crape myrtle, I think.
I think it’s some sort of sycamore.

*branches* that is.

CuriousLurker Nov 6, 2010 7:29:13pm

re: #9 reine.de.tout

Now that I think about it, you’re absolutely right. That tree is ginormous and not at all shaped like a crape myrtle (never knew it was spelled crape—I feel like an idjit!), which we had tons of back in TX.

Image: img_1274-medium.jpg

Interesting Times Nov 6, 2010 7:36:30pm

This thread makes me wish there existed a mobile app where, if you snapped a photo of a tree or flower, you’d get an instant Google results page telling you what species it was - iBotanist, perhaps?

re: #11 CuriousLurker

On another note, if you have LVQ’s contact info, could you send him my email address? The LGF mail system just doesn’t want to work for us tonight :(

CuriousLurker Nov 6, 2010 7:47:30pm

re: #12 publicityStunted

iBotanist would be awesome! LOL

Unfortunately, I don’t have his contact info. I never followed up with him after that discussion we were having when he said he was having issues setting up his email account. Sorry.

reine.de.tout Nov 6, 2010 8:07:54pm

re: #11 CuriousLurker

Now that I think about it, you’re absolutely right. That tree is ginormous and not at all shaped like a crape myrtle (never knew it was spelled crape—I feel like an idjit!), which we had tons of back in TX.

Image: img_1274-medium.jpg

CL - lol.
Everybody in the world spells it “crepe”.
“Crape” looks too much like “crap”, I guess - it just looks weird, but everyone is accustomed to seeing “crepe”.

reine.de.tout Nov 6, 2010 8:09:24pm

re: #12 publicityStunted

This thread makes me wish there existed a mobile app where, if you snapped a photo of a tree or flower, you’d get an instant Google results page telling you what species it was - iBotanist, perhaps?

On another note, if you have LVQ’s contact info, could you send him my email address? The LGF mail system just doesn’t want to work for us tonight :(

I have a yahoo.com address for LVQ. Not sure it’s his current one. At any rate, if it is, I’ll be glad to send him your e-mail addy, if you want to send yours to me. YOu can reach me at either email address shown at the cookbook blog - just click my nic to get to the blog.

Interesting Times Nov 6, 2010 8:47:23pm

re: #15 reine.de.tout

Done and thanks :)