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Small and large leaves float on the water at Mill Creek near the lake.

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You can see one more here!

it’s that time of year, again

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I was asked once if I arrange leaves for a photo.  When asked a question about photos I try to be forthright and honest.  My answer in this case was “sometimes”.  Generally, I don’t arrange leaves or almost any objects in the nature shots but I will try to remove some distractions that I don’t think would be of interest to the composition, if at all possible.  Sometimes it’s not possible to get the look I wanted and I have resorted to using the clone stamp tool to remove unwanted elements, but this is rarely done.  Sometimes it’s hard to improve on what you naturally see.

it’s that time of year…

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I think fall gets here earlier every year but this year I don’t mind.  It wasn’t a very pleasant summer but fall has been very nice (so far).

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I have been collecting photos of trees and leaves for a long time and thought I should post one.  It’s difficult to take a simple, common subject, make a lot of photos and still keep it interesting.   But, if I may generalize, photographers love a challenge.  I had a manager who would preface his remarks with “I have a challenge for you!”  before giving me a crappy job  to do, thinking I would be pleased to have a “challenge”.  The tree/leaf project is nothing like that.  It’s something I do out of love.  Like everything I do these days.

At the risk of running low on leaf photos to post, here are a few more.

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