Gutter Leaves I

Today I begin a series that may not be for everyone, but I am very excited about it. Gutter leaves. All shots were taken at the edge of my street where the street meets the curb and leaves would collect.

 

After a season of sanding the street along with some thawing and freezing, dirty and gritty leaves are left in various states of decay, some retaining fall colour, others as in this one with subtle earth tones.

 

If you can, please view the full versions as these are very much about fine detail and textures. All were taken from a tripod.

 

I begin with likely the toughest one to compose. My eye was caught by the broken leaf at the bottom, but I could not resist including the others. I find the balance is off a bit left to right and would have preferred to have had a wee bit more space on the left, but I sacrificed that space to include more of the patterns in the sand on the right, which I believe are caused by expanding freezing water or humidity, kind of like how frost can grow on a window.

 

I am not sure how many I will include in this series, but I have many that I really like a lot, as there was no shortage of subjects. I will try to keep descriptions of the rest short, so you can spend more time viewing than reading.

Done