[Christine]

The essence of Autumn - hedgerows in full fruit and the plough out on the harvested fields ready for next year - it's autumn when the ploughs are out for me as a farmers daughter. Taken down one of the paths on my allotment site. Taken yesterday.

[John]

Christine, that's weird. The sky has gone a strange blue colour. Did you photoshop it?

Lovely photo, being serious.

[Christine]

Nope John that picture is just as it came and is exactly what my Pentax Optio L50 took. Honest we get skies like that up here in Northumberland.  

It's a brilliant place for taking pictures off my allotment at top of hill looking over Tyne Valley - and if you ask nicely I'll tell you where the pictures from the last year are and you can see that I've caught it that way any number of times.  

I never photoshop for competitions - that's under my rules of cheating  

[Yorkie]

I was in Pet City one day when I overheard an assistant tell another one that the tarantula had escaped again. Trampling pregnant women and small children underfoot, I made a less than dignified exit from the store, incidentally setting a new unofficial land speed record.

The Chairman of the British Tarantula Society lived in the same town as us when I and brother were in our early teens.  When my brother found this out and told mum, she suddenly decided that his previous pleas for a dog were infinitely preferable to the alternative ...  

[John]

I never photoshop for competitions - that's under my rules of cheating  

I wasn't being serious, although there is nothing in the rules about it. I often correct my photos but I don't enter the competition, obviously.

It's bad enough at the NVS raffle - I keep winning and I donate the prize!!

[Christine]

I likes people who asks. I had a professional photographer peer through my on-line file and he found the one that I had photoshopped!!!! Then peered at my tiny camera and said "you got those skies with that?!! - not a bad camera then".

Of course he had the DSLR works plus bells and whistles and I'd not used a camera for 50 years till this summer - it's a long way from a Brownie Box camera to a digital one!!

Couple of years time and I might want some of the other stuff too when I've finished making the silly mistakes with this one (not thumbs but close ups and light).

[FCG]

Autumn Morning @Bonkers



View from our rock, cold start to a lovely day

Beautiful shot - it looks like the sea is rolling in there. I like how you've managed to get those houses that have been picked out by the morning sun in.

[WR1]

Stunning picture Sarah what a lovely view you have .

[jennyb]

Just found these lyrics to a song I sang at school, funnily enough Dan sang it too at the same school although a few years later  

It really says autumn to me

Autumn Days by Estelle White.
Autumn days, when the grass is jewelled
And the silk in a chestnut shell
Jet planes meeting in the air to be refuelled
All these things I love so well
So I mustn't forget
No, I mustn't forget
To say a great big thank you
No, I mustn't forget.

Clouds that look like familiar faces
And winter's moon with frosted rings
Smell of bacon as I fasten up my laces
And the milkman sings.

Whipped-up spray that is rainbow-scattered
And a swallow curving in the sky
Shoes go comfy though they're worn out and they're battered
And the taste of apple pie.

Scent of gardens when the rain's been falling
And a minnow darting down a stream
Picked-up engine that's been stuttering and stalling
And a win for my home team.


Sarah

you read my mind, i was already signing this in my head as i was catching up on this thread.  this was one of my favourites from primary school.

the other harvest festival one was "i mustn't forget"

"Cauliflower's fluffy and cabbages green,
strawberry's sweeter than any i've seen.
beetroot juicy and onions ripe,
all grow steadily day and night.

the apples are ripe.
the plums are red.
broad beans are sleeping in a blankety bed."

anyone remember than one?

[babe]

my favourite is a 'robert frost' poem

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

and S E Hinton's interpretation of it in the book/movie 'the outsiders' is wonderful

[WoodyK]

All the entries so far are fantastic. Not sure I can compete with those :-(

[WoodyK]

Nope John that picture is just as it came and is exactly what my Pentax Optio L50 took. Honest we get skies like that up here in Northumberland.  

It's a brilliant place for taking pictures off my allotment at top of hill looking over Tyne Valley - and if you ask nicely I'll tell you where the pictures from the last year are and you can see that I've caught it that way any number of times.  

I never photoshop for competitions - that's under my rules of cheating  

Christine, I just bought my wife a Pentax Optio L50 for her birthday and it's a great little camera. I'm finding I now grab her camera rather than taking my SLR!

[Christine]

There's a few things that it doesn't do that your SLR will do - for instance Alnwick castle across the Paddock is out of it's range and definitely one where you need the SLR extra lens. But yes there's an awful lot that it will do and it's trained me very well.

[Ice]

Taken in Toombs Meadow, Stony Stratford.  Just me and the dog, happy days.

[Aunt Sally]

Fabulous Ice.  Quite taken my breath away