October 9, 2007
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A Little Help Here?
I am trying to come up with a picture about FALL… What are some signs of fall? It’s for a photo contest. Ben has given me a pretty nice couple of choices and I am working on those, but I was wondering what you guys think.
To me one thing that signifies fall is the salmon run. We usually make three or four trips to the fish ladder to see the fish collections. So I thought I would try to get some pictures of the run. So today I stood in the middle of a very cold river, in my very cool boots and tried to capture a fish run. I wasn’t very successful, I wasn’t in a very good spot in the river and I am getting in kind of late. Here’s what I got so far and neither of them are good enough for the contest… but I still think they are fun.
It just looks cool.
What things do you see that signify AUTUMN?
Comments (36)
That big ass fish picture is… one big ass fish picture. Try a yard fully covered with a layer of leaves.
uh huh.
Those are cool pictures.
Autumn to me is red and yellow and orange trees. That’s pretty cliche, though, and lots of people will probably go that way. Football? School? School buses? People wearing jackets? (Maybe not this fall, though.) Pumpkins? Pecans? Pie? (I don’t know why pie is fall, but it is. Maybe because of Thanksgiving.) Hot chocolate? (More fall than winter for me.) Huh. Apparently lots of things make me think of fall.
Bouquets of sharpened pencils (courtesy of “You’ve Got Mail).
For me, it is definitely when the leaves change color and fall. A picture of leaves falling or a picture of a pumpkin patch would be cool.
Great photos. When I think of fall I think of pumpkin patches and trees turning colors.
great pictures. I always figured the arrival of cold rain… anyway, Wednesday’s post is for you (up sometime in the American morning)
The way the sun shines… When fall hits, it shines just a little differently.
eh.. It’s probably all in in my head.
You are too much modest , Ang . Those photos are amazing and unfrequent . Courage is needed to go in the cold river with a strong stream .
Congrats .
Love
Michel
Damn, that is one crazy big fish!
Buck with polished antlers fleming into the wind and the rubs they leave behind, leaf piles, corn pickers or a bean harverster blowing into a truck, pumpkin patches and/or pumpkin pie, halloween decorations, corn mazes, gray skies, football amd/or homecoming type stuff, migrating geese, pheasants in partially picked corn field, thanksgiving, political lawn signs (that one is more like a fall blight but a sure sign)
get a photo of Cooper with his head lined up with other pumpkins or Jack-O-lanterns like on a table or thing of hay.
That’s one big fish. When I think of fall I think of many different colors.
I suppose autumn looks and feels different depending on where you are from. Here it is damp, windy and a little darker than usual. Not necessarily cooler, unfortunatly. I don’t know what the fish are up to!
Love your photos, though.
OH ANGI!!!!!!!
THOSE PICS ARE BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!! They are everything you say they are….definitely cool, and so much more!
(((HUGS!!)))
Autumn to me is when people start raving about the way the trees change color. Mostly what I see in Autumn is gray skies, rain, and needing to wear long pants instead of shorts. Hard to get a picture of that that is contest worthy, though. Try again for the salmon, it’s a unique idea with amazing potential.
The different colors of the leaves. enjoyed the salmon run pics
uh, obviously the leaves…u should catch their various hues as they change colors: red, gold, yellow, purple, etc.
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Yeah, leaves are a sign of fall but I like pictures of maple trees with syrup buckets hanging from them. And old houses with smoke coming from their chimneys. And little old ladies proudly showing off their pumpkin pies. And 4-H livestock shows – kids showing their cows and pigs. Cotton fields after the leaves have died and the big fat white cotton blossoms look like snow. Kids playing in big piles of leaves. Fat squirrels gathering the last of the acorns before they hibernate. Fat newborn babies dressed up for Halloween.
Can you tell I love fall?
Oh, and down here in the South, people use their front porches like outdoor livingrooms during cooler weather and spend evenings sitting outside watching kids play in the front yards. We use both our front porch and our deck like that.
My grandparents used to have a sleeping porch that was screened in and their kids (my Daddy and his brother and sister) would drag their beds out on it during the summer months because the house was like an oven! I’d love to have one of those, especially during cool fall nights.
trees. but that’s the obvious choice.
what about boats being docked for the winter?
cheerleaders with red noses
Wonderful as always. I always wanted to make a all-leaf snowman for Fall.
squirrels and hot tea (not necessarily together)
Hello Ang, looks like your friends have the pics covered, nice stuff. Fall to me is the end of racing and the beginning of fishing time. Getting the boat out of mothballs, only been out once this summer, first time in over 30 years only been fishing once in a whole summer. But hell I can fish when I’m to old to race . Glad to see you are still having fun, its been a blast for all of us this year messing with those cars.
Hugs
Shack
I once saw a painting of a yellow school bus going down a country lane when all the leave were colored. That touched/struck/left an impression on me as the ultimate fall picture.
How about hire 2 farmers (they need the money), sit one on a red tractor, one on a green one and make them each sit and talk to each other at the edge of a field under the only shade tree (and of course the tree is bright red/orange/yellow/.) They would be talking across the fence.
I do have an imagination! LOL! Good luck.
How about a squirrel packing his cheeks? Or packing it (the nuts) away?
Schoolbooks?
Kids standing at the bus-stop?
A patch of dying grass?
Birds flying south?
A cup of hot soup by a rake and a pile of leaves? HOt soup being all I want to eat on a cool fall evening, rake and a pile of leaves being fall?
Someone raking?
Kids jumping into a pile of leaves?
Football pics?
How about a homecoming parade?
That’s about all I got.
A big wood pile, people chopping wood. A jacket. A scare crow up for Halloween. Pumpkins. A rake & leaves. A barn full of hay.
And a sign for FALL should say caution wet floor.
For me, it’s GOTTA be a tree–either in full autumn glorious colors or bare. If you’re lucky, you can get an awesome shot of a tree almost bare with a close-up of a single leaf blowing in the wind. I should run by that neighborhood where I saw the dead tree with the barn in the background and try to get a picture for you… yeah, in my SPARE time! LOL
What a unique idea! Much better than the too oft cliche of colored leaves, wheat bales, and pumpkins. Coming from the other side of the world; red lanterns, full moons, and chrysanthemums remind me of autumn.
I wish I lived so close to salmon, my grill would go non-stop, heck I’d eat them raw sashmi style
Get one of those underwater one-use cameras and get under the water to get some pictures, pick a faster shutter speed and freeze the fish mid-jump, or make a composite of photos in a river or fish shape to represent their journey.
Autumn for me? Snuggling up in a warm sweater in front of a bonfire.
(THAT would make a cool pic!)
RYC: Thanks Ang…I hope so, too.
Thinking! gimme a minute okay.
I likes the picture I do. I think it is awesome for sure.
Falling leaves, cool mornings, football, pool closings, fall squash pumpkins everywhere nice shot on the fish!
barn fires come to mind. I love those pictures.
RYC: Sorry state issued orange penitentary scrubs simply don’t flatter me… so yeah nothing in the mail. grin
I love seeing autumn trees reflected in a still lake. I took a picture like that last year and it made me look like a professional!!
The return of school with all that entails, beauty in nature with all the colors blooming, camoflauge and hunter orange hanging on clotheslines, pumpkins, squash, gourds, dried corn ready for harvest, costumes and rows of Halloween candy in the stores, cooler weather and the invasion of Asian lady beetles, lol.