Canberra has had one of the most spectacular autumn displays in years. A combination of the drought breaking last year and a very mild, wet summer. The oaks and maples are still running yellows but the main show met the icy winter blasts that heralded the beginning of winter’s grip … great cold fronts dragging up air from the antarctic. Where there were streets transformed into riotous displays of colour, trees now reach for the sky with branches bare save a few hardy splashes of colour clinging on.
The first picture was taken of a golden ash in full flight using a Lensbaby 3G … a quirky little lens that can produce outstanding results. The second picture, below, is the back deck after a recent rainshower. You could likely guess what kind of trees we have in the back yard…
For a lot of you it will be late spring or early summer. Canberra, although known as the ‘Bush Capital’, has many exotic tree species and plantings … which I find kind of nice as the Euclaypts, being evergreen, aren’t renowned for their spectacular seasonal shows. Autumn in Canberra is gorgeous. Do you have native flora where you live? A mix? Is the landscape around you so modified by people as to form a new kind of ‘natural’ or native?
I especially enjoy the rhythm, contrast and patterns in the second photo!
Thank you very much Elena … sums up a wet, windy autumn day for me 🙂
Love those fiery colours of autumn – not that we get many around here, but your photos are terrific. We live a couple of streets away from a national park and have mainly native plants – there are colourful flowers to be found – banksias, bottlebrush, malaleuca – but they flower at different times of year and autumn doesn’t stand out for it’s colour (it’s not even that cold – haha – this weekend was practically spring – humid, warm). I do love the colours of the flame tree but even that flowers in summer – makes a good Christmas effect though – everything is back to front and upside down in Australia. I have my citrus trees which aren’t native – my lemons, lemonades and kumquats are fruiting so they give a nice yellowness to the garden. Here’s to colour and your wonderful photos 🙂
Thanks Gabrielle 🙂
This year’s display was quite something. This photograph was taken in the last rays of the afternoon sun and tree was achingly vibrant. I found it difficult to appreciate just how rich the oranges and yellows were … the tree was literally afire with autumnal glow.
Love the fallen leaf shot Geoff – we certainly have the full range of colours here too – and I love it
Thanks Ally. I imagine the weather is quite similar where you are … glad you like 🙂
Beide Bilder zeigen die Vielfalt des Herbstes. Beim ersten gefällt mir die leuchtende Kraft der Farben. Sicher gepaart mit dem weichem warmen Licht des Herbstes?
Der dunkle nasse Untergrund bedeckt mit heruntergefallenen Blätter symolisiert für mich, dass sich die Natur zur Ruhe zurück zieht. Hier bei mir ist dies der Zeitpunkt der ersten Fröste, der Kälte, der kurzen Tage und lange Nächte.
Der Rhythmus der Natur mit ihren vier Jahreszeiten beeinflusst mein Leben, meinen eigenen Rhythmus und die Narung. Jede Jahrezeit hat ihren eigenen Charakter, ihr eigenes Licht, ihr eigener Duft, ihre eigenen Wetterphänomene und ihre eigenen Pflanzen und Tiere. Immer gibt es neues zu entdecken und fühlen. Aber auch wiederkehrendes hat Platz und bringt so eine Sicherheit, eine Vertraute mit sich.
Google translate version: Both images show the variety of autumn. The first time I like the bright colors of the force. Sure coupled with the soft warm light of autumn?
The dark wet ground covered with fallen leaves symolisiert for me, that nature to rest retires. Here with me this is the time of the first frosts, the cold, short days and long nights.
The rhythm of nature with its four seasons influenced my life, my own rhythm and Narung. Each season has its own personality, its own light, her own fragrance, their own weather phenomena and their own plants and animals. There are always new to discover and feel. But also has recurrent spaces with such a security, a confidant with it.
Claudia, I really like the way you describe the security and confidence brought by the rhythm of the seasons. Thank you 🙂
Google translate version: Claudia, Ich mag, wie Sie es beschreiben, die Sicherheit und das Vertrauen durch den Rhythmus der Jahreszeiten gebracht. Danke 🙂
I’m drawn to the abstract quality of the first photograph, and it’s ethereal quality. I live on the East Coast of the USA, and we are experiencing a stellar Spring. Our autumns, which can be from September/October through November/December, are usually dramatic. But the drama depends on the temps, which effect the intensity and timing of the coloration. You inspired me to do my next post on leaves–a subject dear to my lens, Sally
Thanks Sally 🙂
I saw your post on leaves and I’m chuffed that I had even a small part in your inspiration of subject matter.
So warm! Well done!
Have a nice day.
I enjoy both pix in this post. One soft and delicate yet vibrant, the other rich with colour and shape. Where I live (a large complex of apartments) the common garden is mostly green, both native and exotics. However, I enjoy photographing the bark on the eucalypts upclose when it has just rained, as they provide wonderful abstracts, with texture, shape and colour.
Thanks Janina 🙂