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Autumn Leaves (2003)

More from the photo shoot in Cincinnati.

Yellow Leaf (2003)

When photographing, I often exploit my independence from film – I take a number of shots of the same subject. Still, I also discipline myself not to delete images from the camera’s memory card until I see them on my computer screen.

This image was one of about fifteen I took of this branch. Some focused on the leaf, some on the branch. Some were oriented to have the branch straight and the leaf diagonal, and vice versa.

Looking at the images on the LCD screen on my camera, this would have been one of the images that would have been up for deletion. Luckily, I held onto it long enough to see the great detail in the barck of the branch.

Oriental Maple (2003)

One of my favorite shots of all the thousands I’ve taken, ‘Oriental Maple’ was taken one rainy morning in the summer of 2003.

I was getting ready to leave for work at City Architecture, when I glanced out of my bedroom window and saw the raindrops on the tree outside. Hastily, I undid the latch on the screen, poked my camera out, and captured the shot.

I didn’t realize it at the time, but I think part of the success of this photo was the white siding of the house: it acted as a white card, bouncing diffused light back at the closer leaves while failing to reach those further away.

For a full-resolution image, see my ZenPhoto gallery.

Autumn Leaves (2003)

Brilliant days in autumn are hard to come by, but the combination of the azure sky with the intense colors of Fall provided quite a palette with which to work. To think of the infinite spectrum of color in the universe, and it has to be boiled down to a measly 256 colors to be displayed on the Web.