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236/366 (21) There's something enigmatic about one, Autumn-coloured leaf, fluttering around in the August sunshine. Promise of things to come but still a while away. If I could go back, I'd use a bigger aperture/shorter shutter speed, to get more of the leaf's surface in focus.
I placed it on my black pants leg to offer some contrast (and awesome black and gold coloring! :) ).
Hurricane Sandy a.k.a. "Frankenstorm" is heading this way and arriving tonight, so if I disappear for a week or two, that would be why. They are forecasting sustained high winds for days and loads of rain, so prolonged power outages are very likely. Hoping they are wrong and that all of us in the storm's path make it out without too much damage.
My effort for Macro Mondays on the theme of Leaf - thought I would give my camera a field trip to the back garden - a gentle breeze played havoc my focussing. Only took a small part of the leaf as they are too large as a whole. The sun back lit the leaf quite well.
As we're enjoying autumn's look,
She's fading while hanging on a hook.
Cruel reality is a pleasure to our eyes,
Where her soul is dying with the time that flies.
This little leaf blew into my window today while I was driving. I knew right away that I was going to bring it home and photo it.
Strobist @ Vivitar 285 left, 250 watt tungsten bulb right.
I really like the way these two light sources work together making a warm/cold contrast.
When I edit photos I usually listen to music. I have an awesome set of headphones and can crank Pandora stations without disturbing the neighbors (how times have changed ... lol) While I was working with this shot a very up temp version of Van Morrison's Moon Dance came on - PERFECT song for this shot. Which I am calling "Leaf Dance" Hope you guys like it - it was a challenging one for me :)
"And all the leaves on the trees are falling
To the sound of the breezes that blow"
- Van Morrison
Leaf and Sand. Northern California Coast. November 19, 2016. © Copyright 2016 G Dan Mitchell - all rights reserved.
An autumn leaf in the sand of a California north coast beach
In many ways the spectacular and rugged Pacific ocean coastline of Northern California is a landscape of huge scale, from the ocean itself to the long views of rocky cliffs, shoreline bluffs, coastal mountain ranges, sea stacks, clouds and fog. I love this country and many of my photographs of this landscape focus on these very things.
But sometimes I do look down at my feet as well. On this afternoon we had stopped at a beach where the road dropped down to nearly the water level and the wintry ocean was wild with the energy of a passing storm, producing surf and swells so large that it seemed that we looked up at them. I wandered out toward the waterline and began to photograph the surf and some sea stacks that stood in the path of the waves. As I turned to walk down the beach I happened to look down and see this autumn leaf, stuck in the sand near the high water mark, with the faintly visible paths of water that had detoured around the leaf on its way back into the ocean.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, "California's Fall Color: A Photographer's Guide to Autumn in the Sierra" is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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The family Phylliidae (often misspelled 'Phyllidae') contains the extant true leaf insects or walking leaves, which include some of the most remarkable leaf mimics in the entire animal kingdom. They occur from South Asia through Southeast Asia to Australia. There are different views about their taxonomy.
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Perfect camouflage - even down the the eaten bits out of its back 'leaf'.
Taken in Bali at the Butterfly and insect park.