The Black Dog’s PhotoBlog

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
~ Stanley Horowitz

As my grandmother use to say, fall is the season when nature prepares to say goodnight before she goes to sleep for the winter. At least, I think she said it that way.

While as the nights become longer and the days become shorter it does trigger those leaves to change their colors and though they’re not sleeping yet we know that soon those leaves will fall and the trees will go into their winter slumber.

So before they sleep, I say, lets enjoy those colors while we still can.

The visual impact of fall is phenomenal! Sure it gets a little colder with the impending season change but it’s this time of year that to me is a photographer’s dream. You have the beauty of the changing colors but you also have frost in the morning, which creates beauty in unimaginable ways. You also get to see more fog and mist rising up from rivers and lakes as the temperatures differ from the ground to the atmosphere above. You treasure the light and warmth more as the days get shorter. But you don’t have to wait as long between sunrise and sunset. I love that the sunrises later as I hate getting up early in the morning. Visually it’s a combination of summer and winter but with added perks and a big punch of beauty. As I’ve said before, fall is my favorite season.