Steven Bourelle Digital Arts

Wisconsin’s fall color season is quickly coming to an end, and with hight winds forecast for Thursday and Friday, it will be over by this weekend. With that in mind, I decided to get in one last day of fall color photography and headed out to Petrifying Springs Park yesterday.

I would say that about 70% of the trees are now bare in the park. There are more leaves on the ground than in the trees. What’s interesting is that I found myself noticing things that I didn’t notice when the colors were at their peak. Without my eye being drawn to the amazing colors overhead, I was able to see the smaller beauties that were all around.

The image above is a good example of that. At first I was drawn to the area by all the leaves on the ground, but as I walked around I noticed the contrast of the tree’s dark color with the bright leaves and really liked it. I wanted to emphasize that contrast so I lowered my composition to inches above the ground and framed the shot so the tree took up a large portion of the picture. My first shots had more sky in them, but the sky was kind of a distraction so I came in even tighter and left most of the sky out. I’m pretty happy with the final result.

You can see more images from yesterday on my SierraVisions post, Fall 2009, The Last Hoorah

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