Warming up

Now that the web site's been revitalized, my next step has to be to start picking up the camera more often. So today I took a quick break from lunch to go in my backyard and take a few snapshots of the Fall decay. The weather is finally toeing the seasonal line, so the temperature dropped, and so have a bunch of the leaves. Plants are starting to whither, and all the bright greens are turning dull and brown. I felt like I may have been forcing myself to find a decent subject to take a picture of, but as soon as I started walking around the backyard, I found a few worthwhile things. I took about a dozen pictures. Here are a few of the shots I liked. They may be lackluster images, but there's some Photoshop-able material here. I can think of a few ways these would work as background or texture images.

So the trick now is to get away from the house and start finding new shooting grounds. I used to take short drives around the town, and could find interesting things to shoot. But those photosafari trips required some time, and good weather. And both may be in short supply in the coming months.