October Photo Challenge -- Discussion thread

[Hex]

Well done, Foxbat. Those were amazing photos.

 

[Foxbat]

Thanks for the votes folks. It's the first time I've won anything other than a tin of biscuits in a raffle

I'm trying to think of a challenge for this month and will (hopefully) post it tonight when I get home from work.

 

[Alex The G and T]

Nicely done, Foxbat. Both stellar shots. Congratulations.

 

[Mouse]

Congrats Foxbat!

This is the shot I should've posted if I'd had more patience. Just wanted to share this tree with you lot cos it's stunning. I've not tweaked this photo in any way.

And the leaves are all dropping off it now too, so the ground is covered in red! This is at Wayford - my favourite place ever.

 

[anivid]

Real good Mouse
- and plus points for not being manipulated.
Congrats

 

[Foxbat]

Lovely shot Mouse. Is that a Maple (Acer)?

 

[Mouse]

Thanks, anivid. I usually do fiddle with the pics a bit, but I just wanted to point out the tree really was that red!

Ta, Foxbat. Yeah, it looks like a maple. I go to these woods at least once a week and it's like this red one suddenly appeared out of nowhere! So pretty. I do love maples.

 

[hopewrites]

*makes note to plan on walking in mouse's woods as well when on that side of the world*

 

[mythmaker]

Beautiful pictures. I love this time of year! A time for introspection and creativity.

If only I was able to take a single photograph without the looming spectre of my thumb obscuring the landscape, then I'd have a go myself.

As it is, I can thank Geoff Capes (or whichever other god has an influence) for people with this talent.

Keep it up guys. I love what you do.

 

[Mouse]

*makes note to plan on walking in mouse's woods as well when on that side of the world*

I think you would especially love it, hope. There are lots of little fairy doors hidden at the bases of some of the trees and the kids leave little diaries and toys inside. And there's a bridge, and a lake, and a statue (who was headless, but someone found her head and restored her) and a meadow and a waterfall and the most fantastic trees and plants. Oh, and there's deer and kingfisher and heron too.

(I tried to attach the pic from my PC but it was too big, so here tis from my DA account instead.)

 

[hopewrites]

Mouse if you ever need a flatmate.... *reference states Hope likes to do laundry and vacuum and is very quiet when she isnt singing*

 

[Mouse]

You're on.

 

[Alex The G and T]

So... the thing about the "Magic Maple." Years ago, we used to make an annual pilgrimage, about this time of year, to this solitary Maple, huddled amid this towering grove of Redwoods. In the Autumn, the Maple would glow a golden aura, over a Faerie glade.

I hadn't been out there in 15 years; but I made time to take the trek; remembering that magical Golden Glow.

Well... an unseasonably early storm had stripped the tree of it's golden leaves and left only such live greenery as had survived the storm.

Meanwhile, some questionably weird trimming, by park attendants, had transformed this benevolent Faerie Glen into something far more sinister... indeed, even Cthulhoid.

 

[Alex The G and T]

And a just-for-fun note on my second entry... (I just flat ran out of time last month.) The only thing "Autmnish" about my second entry was the angle of the sun at noontime.

Anyway... parts of the Speeder Chase on Endor were filmed in this very grove of Redwood trees.