I love frame filling images of fall color.  Give me the soft light of overcast and an early autumn day filled with multiple colors, and I think I can make a strong statement about one of photography’s greatest seasons.Wisconsin’s Chequamegan N.F.  This shot was made one early spring day a long time ago from the Mellen overlook. My last visit to this overlook had several near-by trees obscuring this view.

Using autumn  branches to fill the top third of the picture frame and highlight a famous landscape/waterscape like Bond Falls, is a good way to use the season and may make a stronger statement about fall as well.  This despite the fact that there is less fall showing in this image than the first.

Bond Falls in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is great any time of year and provides a photographer with opportunities for grand landscapes, intimate water falls, and an abundance of abstracts.

What about a few tiny trees in a western landscape.  When you first looked at this picture, what was one of the first things that grabbed your attention?  I am betting it is those autumn trees. There are many ways to say autumn and sometimes, less is more

The image above was made in Yellowstone National Park’s Lamar Valley.  Whenever I am looking for wildlife I am using my peripheral vision for anything that might pop out in the landscape.  Such was the case with these trees.  I am also always looking for animals while I am making landscape photos.

Spring is a long ways from November, but I have included four spring bird photos to finish today’s post just the same.  To be fair we have a fairly large number of wintering Bluebirds, but the rest are long gone by November.

Male Yellow Warbler

Male Baltimore Oriole

Male Eastern Bluebird

Male Rose-breasted Grosbeak

It’s a Matter of Faith

I write about all subjects on this blog, but I always struggle with how to deal with faith.  Mine, yours or anybody’s.  It is the most important part of my life, yet I have no interest in turning this blog into an evangelistic episode.  I don’t know about you but when I see the folks from one of those door to door religions heading my way, I pull the drapes and lock the doors. I also could easily be considered a hypocrite.  I have written too many times about the (much) less than perfect life that I have led.  Just the same I get nervous when I see a world, and specifically my country, slowly dissolving itself of faith in a creator, while preferring that man be the top of all existence.  I wonder if they have looked around lately.  Do they think the world, or this country, is made of better stuff today than yesterday.  They profess to desire a touchy feely world, while that same world becomes more filled with violence and hatred….as they speak.  Respect for others and owning your personal responsibility, is dying rapidly as is that thing we call faith.

In respect to my personal belief system is concerned, there was never a more freeing moment than when the time came to have “Faith” in something greater than I.  My life began to turn around.

I will leave preaching the Gospel to those who are better at it than I am.  We each have are own calling and a little seed can grow into a magnificent creation.

I thank you for stopping at Earth Images and please have a warm and happy Thanksgiving

God Bless