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Hello and welcome to our new seasonal challenge!

Inspired by an article on Fall Foliage in The New York Times and loving the colours of what I have witnessed, I believe the forests and trees are on a fiery exuberance of beautiful and diverse display at the moment.

There is also a video embedded on the same page on the Foliage in Vermont which can also be viewed on YouTube. The video belongs to someone who took a neat shot at it. Probably taken with the help of a drone, I only linked to the video because I wanted you to enjoy and be inspired by the glorious colours of Vermont forests, not to increase the number of views of the video.
(The video " This is Vermont Foliage" belongs to and is edited by Matt Benedetto.)

Link to YouTube - Video of October Foliage in Vermont

Good luck and looking forward to your Fall Foliage photos should you like to participate in the challenge.

Yildiz

ps. All links above to the article and video are fully functional. Please let me know if anything fails.

Specifications:
1./ Challenge #63 will run through 31/OCT/2016 - 03/DEC/2016
2./ The image dimensions must not exceed 1024*1024 pixels and the file size should be smaller than 250 KB.
3./ You can enter with 3 of your favourite images at the most.
4./ Creative thinking is encouraged. Would be nice to see newly taken photos.
5./ Disclaimer: The calender of the challenge may be updated later depending on the season's requirements and should you wish to take new photos.
6./ Enjoy!

My first autumn foliage picture this year. I'm sure there are some more coming, but I thought I would get the ball rolling with this one.

2016 Piper's Hill - Beech Colours by Birm, on Flickr

A99 (mk 1) and SAL G 70-400 (mk 1)

Wonderful, Andy.

Sury

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A scene that talks to my soul...nicely found and captured.

Thanks for sharing, Andy.

Yildiz

Thank you, Sury and Yildiz

Beautiful Andy.

Andy

Lovely image

Here is one from me
Ossie

Thanks Ossie and Jeff

I have been thinking about reflected colours and your lovely picture here inspires me to get out and look for some!

Wonderful shot, Birma!

Fall is not coming to the Midwest this year. Today it's 70F/21C, but it does promise to get down to 55F/13C by Saturday. They're predicting the first frost Thanksgiving Night (Nov 24th).

Dusty

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Just like holding a mirror into the soul of the forest, Ossie.

Thanks for sharing,

Yildiz

Fascinating photo Birma. Love it. (ツ)

Superb reflection Ossie.

Autumn leaves in the rain, Ogimachi, Shirakawa-go, Japan 2009 -- Sony A700

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bakubo wrote:Autumn leaves in the rain, Ogimachi, Shirakawa-go, Japan 2009 -- Sony A700

The little pools of water held in the 'palm' of the leaves are almost visible...and to catch that one drop of water before it parts with the tip of the leaf giving in to the gravity of Earth ? Good timing and attention to detail of the particular instance.

Thank you for sharing and participating, Henry. And on a side note; this photo and Japan made me watch several Fall Foliage videos on YouTube today. Ancient Japanese arcitecture and Zen Gardens with formal landscaping against the unruly growth of decidious trees that embrace them have a timeless serene nature-born wisdom to it...or, so I felt. : )

In other words, if you have photos of such scenes, they would be more than welcome as well.

Yildiz

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Hi,

Just a little reminder that you're welcome to submitting more photos for this challenge. We had some very encouraging starters from members! Would love to see more of your hidden photo-treasury.

Yildiz

Yildiz, just to keep the ball rolling I will post a few more. I hope others will post too. Both of these are in Sapporo a couple of weeks ago.