Hi, I'm Andrea, and I'm interested in creatures and plants both wild and tamed, and people of all sorts. I only use a compact digital camera ,as I love being able to get it into a back pocket, and not have to cart heavy kit about. I carry a Panasonic Lumix TZ series, binoculars and a hand lens almost everywhere.Most of my outings are with the dogs so I only use point and shoot.
I am getting the hang of Photoshop, thanks to some very kind folk on RR!
I have a wildlife garden in Bournemouth, Dorset, in the UK, and spend a lot of time there . I retired from teaching art to teenagers a while ago.
I'm now getting some good results with my digi compacts; it took me a while to make the switch from my old film camera, an 1960 ish Pentax Spotmatic, but the mistakes are much cheaper!
I have 4 lodgers, 3 dogs and a parrot who, as at 2017, I have had 40 years.
I has so far had 19 dogs, mostly rescues.
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Comments (34)
kgb224
Stunning capture and post work Andrea. God Bless.
jayfar
Surprising the colours and patterns that fallen leaves make, nice shot.
BIPOLARTWO
Love the fantastic colours-wish you had been my art teacher
bmac62
Warm and wet...would make a nice wall hanger.
emmecielle
Fantastic colours! Great capture! :)
charpix
Lovely capture in spite of the hazard this poses. I agree with you about leaf blowers. It never fails, I wash my car and it's nice and shiny....then driving down the road, and there is a person with a leaf blower every time, and they do not turn it or stop it as I pass by. I get all sorts of gunk on my nice car. Grrrrr!! We need a campaign against those things. They are noisy, and obnoxious. I agree with using the leaves as mulch. We have a neighbor with three, huge redwoods, and they overhang our property and drop the needles. This makes a beautiful mulch, and keeps weeds down.
auntietk
Beautiful! I love the subtle colors and the light. It makes for a gorgeous pic!
awjay
one of autumns wonders
alanwilliams
lovely random patterns and colours here
sandra46
SUPERB SHOT
Blush
Great capture I love the colors Hugs Susan~
fallen21
Wonderful capture.
morningglory
Pretty shot.
goodoleboy
I'm lost for appropriate adjectives at the sight of this magnificent display of color and textures, Andrea. And, are the tree surgeon's leaf blowers powered by electricity or petrol?
0rest4wicked
Even down from the trees they look nice!
jocko500
yes the blowers do make a lot of noise. cool looking image
wotan Online Now!
Fantastic colors and txt here!
greyone
Super capture. Many of my leaves are now nicely covered with a thick blanket of snow, so no worry about raking them up anymore. :) Unfortunately in the spring they will be still there and need to be dealt with before the grass can start growing.
EyeStorm
The colors are simply amazing! Beautiful image! :)
nikolais
California dreamin' rings in my ears... cool capture, Andrea!
Lashia
Beautiful shot, reminds me of a print I saw in a gallery once. Love the colours and close crop- thanks for sharing! :)
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mariogiannecchini
Fantastic colours! Great capture!
helanker
Now I BET your neighbour can turn this LEAFBLOWER into A LEAF SUCKER!!! We have such a machine but we done BLOW THEM AWAY, even though it would only punish ourselves. No we turn it into a leaf sucker and have all the leaves in a sack. I bet your neighbors machine can do that too, so why on earth they use the other way, goes beyond my imagination. Ask them if it can suck the leaves too. If yes, tell them, that if they dont like their leaves, they can deliver them in a sack to you. Because your back is not happy to work extra by collecting half their garden by hand, when they have a machine which can do it in a few seconds. Love the shot here though. Our machine is cheap and effectful. 350kr = 40.25 english pounds and it is electric :) It can both suck and blow. Buy such and blow the leaves back, LOL!
sharky_
Absolutely beautiful. I bet you if you made pictures and sold them, they wouldn't be giving you funny looks again. Nice shot. Aloha
jendellas
Love all the different autumnal colours, what an inconsiderate neighbour you have!!!
thecytron
Stunning colors!
MrsRatbag
What an absolutely gorgeous shot! I love leaf mosaics!
cfulton
Colours, textures and patterns - all there! Clive
danapommet
This is a very nice collection of leaves. I can’t tell if you have an iridescent leaf of a few drops of gasoline from a passing car. If you had a silent Leaf-blower, you could blow all of your anal neighbor’s leaves right back into his yard. Might be worth a rental!!!
wysiwig
It certainly is! Beautiful light and colors. Superb image. I love Sharky's comment. It prompts a delicious scenario where you have a gallery showing in town and all the folks who have given you odd and dirty looks come to ooo and ahh over the artworks. Then the gallery owner introduces you and they all recognize you. As you can probably tell, I love to see the pompous and the stupid discomfited.