I guess it is human nature to want to savor autumn. With another year slipping through our fingers, autumn is a reminder of all that is beautiful and fleeting in our lives. The cycle of children returning to school, Friday night marching bands taking to high school fields and frosty mornings always sends me for my camera.
Finding photo subjects is especially easy this time of year. There’s something about a maple leaf that brings out the artist in even the amateur photo snapper. Here are some ideas for autumn pictures that capture the essence of the season:
- The water in ponds and streams is warmer than the air during crisp early mornings: every body of water a magical misty place. Sunrises and cattails rising out of the fog make great photos.
- Abandoned buildings, barns, silos and farm implements look in their element in the autumn.
- Weather changes including the deepening gray of storm clouds are more common. Extra points if you capture a flying V flock of geese at the same time.
- With rainstorms comes standing water, perfect for capturing reflections.
- If you have a waterproof camera and a remote, consider putting it in a bucket of apples and taking a picture of kids bobbing for apples – from below!
- In that same vein, sticking a camera inside a carved pumpkin and taking pictures of kids in costumes is a triangular pumpkin-eye view of the world!
- People start to decorate their homes in autumn and you can capture the sublime and the goofy on a walk around the neighborhood.
For your own seasonal décor, print out 4X6 or 5X7 copies of your autumn pictures and put them in matching frames on a mantel or side table or layer them across a bulletin board.
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