Smile! It will soon be Christmas.

ELLIPSIS MONDAY PHOTO SHOOT

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Carly has asked us for photographs showing autumn and will not accept archived entries. This caused me some trepidation as carrying the camera causes me increased pain. At first I thought I would just photograph my hanging basket, but then I knew I could never be satisfied with that.

'Gain on the Swing' From Colour Contrast Continuity

'Autumnal Fire' From Colour Contrast Continuity

I planted my winter hanging basket to ‘gain on the swing’ ‘autumnal fire’.
The cyclamen will hopefully flower for many months and warm the entrance to my home and the winter violas will produce many different faces to give a smile to any visitor when they have been given time to grow...

I took my camera out with me this morning for the first time in many weeks.
I was determined to take photographs that would show nature always beats any attempt of mine to organise the decoration for the season.

'Autumnal Light' From Colour Contrast Continuity

Autumnal light shows the canal path I walk with my dogs every morning and where I found the other pictures to photograph except the nuts of the Hazel tree that grows beside the road I have to walk along in order to gain the relative peace I find beside the water.

'Reflect on the colours of autumn' From Colour Contrast Continuity

'The First of Many' From Colour Contrast Continuity

'We Come as a Pair' From Colour Contrast Continuity

My favourite is the Horse Chestnut Conker that seemed to smile although it faced entering a tough world.

'Smile it will soon be Christmas' From Colour Contrast Continuity

ELLIPSIS MONDAY PHOTO SHOOT

Carly has asked us for BUGS. Please follow the link to see other entries.
I am very late with mine, sorry Carly. This week has been a bit challenging for me.

As you can see I favour Bees ...

'On Blackberry blossom'From Colour Contrast Continuity

'On Hawthorn blossom'From Colour Contrast Continuity

'Bramble Ramble'From Colour Contrast Continuity

'Honeysuckle'From Colour Contrast Continuity

'Californian Lilac'From Colour Contrast Continuity

'Californian Lilac again'From Colour Contrast Continuity

'Honeysuckle again'From Colour Contrast Continuity

'Gentian'From Colour Contrast Continuity

'Willow'From Colour Contrast Continuity

From Colour Contrast Continuity

'Gentian'From Colour Contrast Continuity

I do not have a dedicated macro lens.

I cropped and enlarged the photographs using photoshop. All were taken with my Canon 20D using a Tamron 18-270mm lens.

Blogger seems to have recropped my photos. I have no idea why this has happened, as I have loaded them from picassa in the same way I have always done at the same size that has always appeared in total before.