Take some left over red, white and blue bunting from the jubilee earlier this year. Replace the blue flags with green ones. Add some embellishments and what have you got...?
"I had a little nut tree, Nothing would it bear, But a silver nutmeg, And a golden pear." - traditional nursery rhyme. Well, no nutmeg and no pears but some lovely autumnal foliage at a local plant and tree nursery.
To quote Shauna Niequist, "The leaves as they spark into wild colour just before they die are the world’s oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter.” As November runs through into December we are witnessing the spectacular last act of this performance.
Sometimes things, photographically speaking, can best be described as being suboptimal and to get a picture at all is just a question of doing the best you can.
Things to be decked out in, dressed up in, in this case of the Christmas variety. It's that time of year again and here is this season's offering mostly all the way from China as usual, ironically.
Sculpture at The Savill Garden; exploring a display of imaginative and innovative sculpture by members of the Surrey Sculpture Society inspired by the natural world.
I shall shortly be off on another photo charter to capture some late afternoon and then night time steam engine action. For this I will use two constant aperture pro zooms and a fast pro prime...