[Theme] Autumn colour 2016

[Erik Lund]

Thanks It was worth the climb!

[Lars Hansen]

The movement in the leaves are nicely caught here Lars.

Beautiful colors Lars and creative use of shutter speed (or the lack of *speed*)... 

Thanks Kjetil and Anirban!

[Bjørn Rørslett]

I've recently commenced the second pass of files from the Norwegian 'post-celebration' trip with Erik. Once in a while one gets a true surprise when the captures are processed. This photo is an illustration to that effect. When we were in the field, lots of areas appeared not to have strong autumn colours at all, but later evidence exists to show the opposite.

The valley of Grimsdalen in the central mountain range of southern Norway has a varied topography and hence also diversified vegetation and numerous glacio-fluvial features from the last ice Age. All are potential candidates for creating interesting images in infrared.

Here is a stitched panorama from the western part of the valley, shot with a broad-spectrum Nikon D600 and the fabulous (and unfortunately, also very elusive and expensive) 200-400 mm f/4 Nikkor ED zoom lens. The diversification and range of autumn colours in the landscape is well-nigh unbelievable. But the camera never lies.

[Erik Lund]

Very nice shot Bjørn very vivid despite the very late afternoon light.

[Akira]

Simply stunning!

[Jakov Minić]

Bjørn is shooting Missoni style

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Bjørn is shooting Missoni style

I had to google that ...

What can I say other than nature still after all these decades of shooting her can surprise.

[John Geerts]

Incredible colours.

[John Geerts]

The Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus) is an invasive species. In the Spring and Summer it is hardly noticeable between the other greens, but in the Autumn it reveals its true character with red colours. Here it creeps over the Lilac  (Syringa vulgaris).

[Erik Lund]

John it seems to a strange muted red in the out of focus areas?
I like the composition.

[elsa hoffmann]

Bjørn - for a change I like that photo

[simato73]

Peveril Castle from Hidden Dale.
Shot last Saturday morning. The autumn colours are starting to come out.
Not the best light, I had planned to go back on Sunday, with sun forecast, but instead I got ill

[Erik Lund]

Very nice image but the very heavy framing draws all the attention out of it,,,

[John Geerts]

John it seems to a strange muted red in the out of focus areas?
I like the composition.

Thanks for the feedback Erik.
It is an exceptional situation, I guess.
Before the leafs of the Virgina Creeper really turn red, they are a bit pale in between red and green.  It was a dark situation, with a bit of blue sky in the background. That may have caused some blue overcast which combined with the light makes the very rare  and strange red.

This is another example with the out of focus leafs now in focus, very little post processing. A little bit darker than the previous one.   Shot with the Nikkor 200/2 by the way.

[Bjørn Rørslett]

The Parthenocissus in my back yard is now intensely red. Getting very windy though, plus rain is bucketing down, thus not sure I can manage to capture the magnificent colour show before all foliage is gone for the season.