Best Fall Colour Shots from the Past

I've always found fall colour shots a challenge, because you simply can't capture the vibrancy of what you see in person in a camera, especially not in an iphone camera!  And the human eye is drawn to individual bright trees, but that's not what the camera captures best.  But some shots are certainly better than others and sometimes you just get lucky.  So here are some of my best fall colour shots from the past, most from nearly 10 years ago, along with some comments on what makes them my favourites.

Since 'whole tree pictures' aren't usually winners i photos, I'm leaving those out.  The first group of these are shots capturing a portion of colourful trees, and the second group zoom in on just a group of leaves.  If you find these sharper than my usual photos today, that's because they were all shot with my bigger Nikon, not just an iphone.

This is certainly a top favourite.  The structure provided by the tree trunk adds a lot.  

This one I think is still very good, with the two trunks providing some structure among the bright leaves.  Without that structure both of these it would be just a blur of red leaves.

In comparison, I actually don't like this one very much, because there's really no structure to it.  It is just a blur of, in this case, orange leaves.

But I love this one just because the lighting was perfect!  And the Sumach is indeed beautiful.

Oak leaves.  I have found that bright sunshine does not necessarily make the best pictures - unless you can get the sun shining through the leaves like this one.

This one is not sunny, but it works because of the dramatic perspective on the closest Beech leaves.

These two shots of maple leaves with the sun coming through work well for me.  I like the second one even though the left half is dark, because the eye is drawn so strongly to the right hand side.

So that's my first batch of favourite fall colour shots from the past; in the next post some scenic shots.