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Sunlit Leaves

Thursday, October 30th, 2008 | Photography | No Comments

The sun has been starting to set just a little after I get home from work, and Wednesday I noticed these leaves being hit by the almost setting sun as I got home. However, I missed the sun on them as I took too long to get set up and get down to them. Thus, an effort was made yesterday, and I got off quite a few shots before the sun tucked away. I took a couple shots of leaves in bunches, but that just was doing it, so I grabbed a leaf and held it into the sun, and tried to focus on it at while it was at arms length, while trying to use the leaf to keep the sun from blinding me. Needless to say it was difficult, and I messed up a bunch of good shots by not being in focus. Only a few remained that were actually kind of good.

As I was setting up another shot of a leaf actually on a tree, the wind blew the leaf out of frame by a good amount right as I shot. I think it could have been a pretty cool photograph. Needless to say the wind didn’t give up till the sun went down, by then all the colors I was relying on went cold.

I had to resort to leaves on asphalt, which I really enjoyed the way these came out.
Enjoy.
Bleached Leaf on Asphalt