Leafy Waterfall

I go back and forth a lot on whether I like this one or not!

I do like the contrast between the large, colourful leaves that are sharply in focus and the muted rocks and waterfall in the background that are softly blurred. Maybe it's just the angle I'm not sure of. Anyway, minimal post-processing here. I cropped out some distractions to either side and did a very slight smidge of sharpening.

Citadel Plants

The goal was to take a photo of the plants in the Citadel. I just wasn't feeling excited by anything. So I changed my point of view! Still not my fave ever, but an interesting shot.

Contrasting colours

More killing time while waiting for people to walk by! I loved the contrasting colours between the pale leaves and the rich berries.

1/50 sec, f/4.0 aperture, ISO 80, 16mm focal length

Rainy day

Cue sequence of events: Dog starts to bark like crazy. Woman gets up to look outside and see what's going on. Woman sees nothing of note for the dog, but a lovely photo opportunity. Woman gets camera, and does her best to get the shot without having to go outside in the rain!

As I've said before, I love my SX10, but every once in a while, the lack of true manual focus drives me to distraction. Today, I could NOT get the autofocus to do what I wanted, so here we are - this is what I could eck out with the limited manual focus the camera offers. Overall, I'm quite pleased with it. The focus may not be razor sharp, but it is very good. the background is beautifully blurry, to make a muted and not-distracting canvas for this pretty iris leaf.

And did I mention I shot this through the window? (which is a little smudgey, and that might contribute slightly to the sharpness issue.)

0.02 sec exposure, f/5.7 aperture, ISO 200, 100mm focal length

Shoe planters

The picture itself is... okay, not spectacular, but the circumstances make it great.

First of all, this was taken on Dec 27, and I just don't usually get to see living greenery outside at that time of year! Lovely! I love the splash of red against the otherwise grey-brown surroundings - in fact, it was a drizzly, rainy day, so everything was rather grey, and then there were these bright red shoes! I love that they are a matched pair, but are on the wrong sides of each other for putting them on.

What's your most creative recycling of an item?

Before the snow

I took this one before the snow fell. It was a bit of a random shot as I was walking home from... somewhere or other. I looked down, and there was this neat-looking spread of leaves, so I clicked!

I think it looks neater the larger it is, so feel free to click on the picture to see a bigger version of it. I think it might look better with some cropping - maybe I'll give that a try later and edit this post to add a second version.

Colours of Fall part 2

The colours in this bush are very different from yesterday's. Here the leaves have that beautiful yellow gold, tinged here and there with orange and red. The dark berries make such a fabulous contrast.  I wasn't at quite the right angle to get the same great clarity of the leaves as yesterday's picture, unfortunately. So the colours are clear, but the sharp details of the actual leaves are missing.

Colours of Fall

I'm going to do several photos over the next few days, trying to capture fall. I guess the bare branches from a couple of days ago would be the first, and the multi-colour tree from the 19th, as well.

If you have any suggestions for other themes I might try, leave a note!

I am completely in love with the colours in this bush. The reds with a touch of gold and orange. So rich and stunning. There's even a single brownish berry to the top left. I love the clarity of the leaves in the center, you can see the very veins of each leaf.