Well in the throws of Autumn...

I've done some posting about getting "Autumn Happy" and gaining "Autumnal Balance". Well we're well in the throws of autumn right now and I am simply adoring the season this year! I always do but as photography is becoming more and more of a medium for me to absorb things I really feel like this year I have a serious tool for celebrating it.

I may or may not have mentioned this but one of the reason why we bought our house is that, although we are reasonably central to a large town and we are on a new build estate, the builders spared a strip of woodland and it's right in front of our front door. Apparently it's to conserve some endangered toad species (of which I have never seen though it's a huge goal to find one and take some AWESOME toad portraits!) well here's some Autumnal celebrating from the wood outside my front door...

Leaves of change...

Leaves dropping and we start to think about the W word...

More leaves...

The stuff that's making that brilliant CRUNCH under your feet...

Snail trails...

I'm not sure this is a "good photo", I created sharper images, but I love the pop of the amber against the light background...

Beautiful fungus...

I LOVE this, the shapes and the structure, it looks like a sculpture or architecture. Couldn't this totally be an opera house...?

I like the layering of "blur"...

And all of a sudden PURPLE is added to our Autumn palette... 

Leaves collect at the kirbs... (and less idyllically, on my doorstep...)

From where things decay, new things grow... Round and around we go... (little LOL to myself... It's %$@£ing mushrooms Charlie, get a grip)