Y’know, Len, you’ve given me a new appreciation for the swamp as a photographic venue. That may sound like ‘sunshine-pumping’, but I’m serious about it…
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Oh definitely, I’d love to have a good swamp near me. They are a haven for interesting photos. As long as it’s not mosquito season!
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I was able to go out twice in one week! Ahh, luxury… 
This set is my first time shooting a cemetery. This one is the oldest in my immediate area, and most of the graves (that I could read dates on) were from ~1825 to ~1925. A few of the well known local families had headstones up until 2010ish. Given the family names, it was obvious the old money families bought up plots in large numbers here.
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Thanks! Technically the last ones were at a lake and not a swamp, but it’s a (very) fine line! 
Photographically the biggest challenge / frustration is that the subject matter is often very messy and chaotic. Finding a clear enough shot is the biggest challenge for me.
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Go between December and February, inclusive. Seriously. Otherwise it’s mosquito season.
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As long as I’m on a roll, a couple from this afternoon. The color of the leaves themselves isn’t quite as intense as it looks here, but this is how it looked. If that sounds contradictory, the warm pre-sunset light was making everything glow, hence the “greater than real” fall color – for a few minutes.
These were taken at a park in town.
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Some nice shots, I envy the blue sky.
I was out in Dunkeld yesterday, in miserable drizzle. Hence the rather gloomy bank of the Tay, and the sad looking leaves.
We did go on to Perth in the afternoon, to hear stories and songs of the Jacobites at the Perth Museum. I don’t know whether it is just me, but the Scots seem much more aware of their history than places I have lived in England.
About three miles up the A9 is the village of Killiecrankie. It might be tiny, but the locals will tell you all about the battle of Killiecrankie, which took place in 1689. There is even a song about it.
Anyway, I got a couple of pictures of bog-preserved material inside the museum, and a shot of St. John’s Kirk just as the light was dying (at 16:30, the days are shortening rapidly).
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Two mornings and an evening (from our balcony, on a home office day, and then next morning and evening, going to/coming from the office):
And a pano from the 1st day:
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This fall I have been trying to retake some images I made 3 years ago (when I first picked up a camera) as part of a project on a local regional park. The peak fall season was very short lived, but was still the best color since 2022. The leaves are gone but, even now, the area keeps on giving. I know you guys are probably tired of seeing images from the same location, so I promise to give this place a rest.
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I went on vacation to the Cohutta Mountains of north Georgia (US) last week and got some nice images with my new iPhone 17 Pro Max. Here is a small sample. The images are unedited except for resizing and reducing JPEG quality.
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I never get tired of seeing lovely pictures, don’t worry!
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nr 1 and nr 3 
We are going to a Café Scientifique meeting next week, note the subject for November 18th.
From a failed attempt at “ghost” photography:
It was a day of bad luck, poor planning, and ignorance which ran up against a very short window of time to shoot.
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More color (anyone surprised)? 
A friend and I drove about two hours to a potential photo site, but it ended up not so much. It was a pleasant place for a hike in the woods (we walked about four miles) but far too cluttered and close for photography. On the way back we stopped at a place I’ve photographed before and managed to miss a colorful sunset sky (isn’t that always the case). But in the post-sunset afterglow I captured a couple of bald cypress trees before the mosquitoes drove us away.
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At first I thought the second one was a reflection in water. The symmetry is neat even though they are seperate limbs!