Photographer's Choice, Fall Colors

 In this photo we can see the magic of the fall colors as the trees shed leaves and they drift along the wind to green grass. Dotting the campus like stars in the sky, we can see the hues of the foliage cascading from green to red to yellow to brown. They sit near the mossy tree as the wind blows them to and fro, gliding on the air, almost dancing from the tree to the ground. The leaves and their array of colors set the tone for Thanksgiving, and are something to be grateful for; the unending beauty of nature.

 

 Here we see sunset falling over the campus, as the evening light breaks through the tree. The night falls like a blanket, covering the grounds as time rolls on. Barely a whisper of wind is felt yet the silence of the night does not detract from the beauty of the landscape. The yellow hue of the trees in the foreground is juxtaposed with the more fully leafed trees in the background and they stand boldly against the gray and brown of North Santiam Hall. 

 

 Few concepts capture the image of the autumn quite like the leafless trees of the college campus. Having shed their leaves gone into a kind of hibernation, they are contrasted with the barely leafed yellows of the tree in the foreground. Still, we see the tree in the left of the image stand leafless, having merely been subjected to the fortunes of greater winds or earlier turnover. The leaves have blown away, some of them framing the tree in the right of the image, yet both of them serve to highlight the taller trees in the background, like sentinels watching guard over the campus.