I’ve uploaded them to flickr in the set Autumnal Blooming in Salisbury.  Here are a few of my favourites, as you can see I had trouble choosing!

I hope my blooms bring a little bit of joy to you.

Wealie x

Red Reaching - Copyright R.Weal 2010

Dahlia dreaming - Copyright R.Weal 2010

petals no more - Copyright R.Weal 2010

Peach Perfection - Copyright R.Weal 2010

Spiney - Copyright R.Weal 2010

Webbed Berries - Copyright R.Weal 2009

It’s official, Autumn is back in the UK, with last Tuesday, 21 September being the official first day of Autumn.  To celebrate the changing of the natural colours from a green Britain to one of reds and golds I decided to finally edit some pictures I took last year at around this time.

The set is called Autumn 2009 and there are a couple of my favourite shots from the set in this post.  I’ve also put a poem in that I wrote in response to one of the great pictures of my flickr contact Brentjp99, the poem is called “Stolen Summer Sun” and it was inspired by the photo Senescence.  If you get a chance, take a moment to check out Brent’s photostream, you will not be disappointed.

Yellow Buds - Copyright R.Weal 2009

I hope you enjoy the pictures and my poem.  Make sure you take a moment to get out into nature this autumn.  It doesn’t last long and as the winter months draw in, the colours in the landscape will be few and far between until the spring arrives.

If you do get out and about, don’t forget to take your camera and capture nature changing right before your eyes.  And if you get a chance publish your pics to flickr and I’ll drop by and have a look see!

Enjoy the autumn!

Wealie

STOLEN SUMMER SUN

Autumn’s come and someone has stolen the summer sun
Who are then, these canny thieves?
None other than the conniving deciduous tree leaves
Fat and green from the boon of the spring rain
These crafty leaves plot and whisper their latest criminal campaign
Softly caressing, swishing and pressing, a perfectly crafted tease
A plaintive calling as the sun was falling, so effortlessly pleased
Throughout long summer months
Devouring the sun’s rays in little bite sized chunks
Like lovers lips locked stealing the other’s breath
Calling on the Autumn’s birth and the Summer’s death
Green leaves no more, but crisp gilded golden tones
They laud their treasure over the Evergreens’ disgruntled groans
Basking in their stolen sunlit glow
They think not of tomorrow, just go with the flow
But as they frolic, sing and dance
They do not understand how much they’ve really chanced
For in the end crime cannot pay
Especially when lady Winter, is on her way…..

Ruth Weal – 10 July 2007 6.30 pm
Inspired by the picture “Senescence” by Brentjp99

Copyright R.Weal 2007 ©

At the heart of Nature's Passion

Okay, those of you with your minds in the gutter are going to be disappointed – this is a study of the passionflower, not the burning passions of the human mind and body – I’ll save that for another day.

I’ve always liked climbing flowers and found the passionflower to be a very interesting and beautiful bloom to look at. It almost looks alien and there are a great number of interesting elements to the blooms and the leaves to photograph.

A while back the passionflower I planted in my back garden really took off and decided to use my washing line as a new climbing frame.

Nature's Silk

The only downside was that I didn’t have as much room to hang the washing, but I was able to get some very creative macro shots of the blooms and it looked magnificent and was the envy of my green fingered friends.

Unfortunately it was a victim of it’s own success and fell to a hard frost, which killed the growth off that was so far from any shelter and it has yet to recover to the same level of growth and beauty.

Passion's Pursuit

I’d not long had my macro lens and had been itching to find a good study to experiment with and the passionflowers were a fantastic subject matter.

I took lots of shots, but in the end chose to publish only 6 images to flickr and put them together as a set entitled Passionflower – A Study.

I was just going to choose just the one image for this post, but I couldn’t decide between these three images, all of which are my favourites.

Which one’s your favourite, or perhaps you like one of the other images from the Passionflower – A Study set – let me know what you think in the comments.

I’m sure you’ll agree, whichever shot is your favourite the passionflower is an intriguing, exotic beauty of a bloom.

Here in Britain they shoot up around February to March and you can see a variety of shades of purple, white and yellow blooms.  They’re very prevalent in the UK as they are a popular perennial that people plant in gardens and places of interest, but occasionally you see them in a more wild setting and they are just as beautiful.

It was a very sunny day when I took this picture and I love the shadows and sheen from the reflections, it all seems to enhance the natural beauty and delicacy of the blooms.