I apologize for the quick replay of the first three road pictures below.  The fourth road picture and the leaf close-up have never been shown anywhere before.

After showing three autumn roads in recent weeks, I toyed with the idea of doing an entire post on that subject.  Then I realized that I really don’t have very many autumn road shots.  Each of the three roads I have previously shown, have their own individual feel to them. Dirt, pavement, wilderness, country, county, cloudy, sunny. I decided to re-show those three in the order they have appeared. Then I added one more that is different from all of the previous.

A more “civilized” fall road. It comes complete with a vehicle and a hiker.  This is rare for me.

Let’s talk about composing road pictures. It would seem logical that when you make a photo of a road…..from the road…..the vertical format would be best. In fact verticals do work very well.  The reason why these are mainly horizontals is they are not just road pictures.  They are autumn road pictures.  I wanted to spread your view into the forest so you could see all of that beautiful fall color. I did make verticals (one or two) of those top two images, but just as I suspected when I made them, they are weak by comparison.  The one vertical you see was made only in that format.  Just to the left of the picture frame the land becomes barren and not very attractive.  I chose to give all of the impact to those golden trees to our right.  The final image was made only in the horizontal format.  I wanted to give priority to that colorful tree to the left of the road, while including the hiker and the car. The format you see was the only way to include so much information from left to right.  You should think of adding road pictures to your portfolio if you haven’t already. Every road picture should be a journey.

Fall deserves a closer examination.

For those of you who aren’t into fall and hate winter, I bring you the historic Kenosha, WI Kemper Center in spring.

A 2008 image of one of my favorite “little critters’, the Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel.

Winter is coming…..and is so is the cold.  Still there is always something that can make a cold winter afternoon a little warmer.

I have shown hundreds of fox photos. Today we find one fox sort of slinking away, and the other one saying goodbye to an offspring.  I make a lot of wildlife pictures from behind. I believe in examining all creatures from every angle. Sometimes I think a picture of an animal who seems to be peering off into the distance, can say more than even a face shot.

Adios Amigos