If you once post a sequence of seasonal banners to rotate on your homepage, you are sooner or later going to have to update them with a new batch for a new season. And so I present my Autumn Banners for 2010!
The banners are set to rotate randomly everytime you refresh the page so you may not see them all for a while, but here they are below in miniature and if you click on one of them, you should be able to see them all full size in a slide-show. [No longer. The present theme makes all of this impossible. 7 March 2017]
They are mostly taken in September or October, though not necessarily this year. in fact, I think only five are from 2010. I’ve doctored a few of them in Photoshop to bring out the colours more vividly.
The Autumn Banners of 2010
This first I took last year or the year before in the Botanical Gardens here in Gothenburg. The tree is a Japanese acer.
This is a recent picture at the time of writing. A duck framed by ripples on the pond in Hisingspark near where I live.
Taken at more or less the same time as the duck photo. I love the almost abstract quality of the rippled reflected birch trunks and turning leaves.
In London this September, walking around the city, my wife and I were surprised to find this bus stop. And there, we thought it was a fictional place in a TV comedy show.
These hands are picking up flower petals someone has thrown as confetti at a wedding. The owner of the hands intends to recycle the petals. Over her mother’s head.
I took the photo in November 2007, I think. Autumn frosts have already bitten this year.
A face found in a photo
At the Globe theatre on London’s south Bank. Taking pictures of the interior and the audience before a performance of The Merry Wives of Windsor in September 2010. When I came to look at the pictures I found this face. I wonder who she’s waiting for.
I’ve used this picture before. It’s a sun-spot-lit lighthouse on one of the skerries off the Swedish west coast. It’s an autumn picture because I took it on a photo safari with my photo-friend Lena sometime in September or October a couple of years ago.
My most abstract banner. This is from a photo taken in the reception area of a hotel in Sundsvall a few autumns ago. It was a bit blurred. I have used one of Photoshop’s “artistic” treatments on it.
Which one do you like best?
Write me a comment!
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Revisited and revised for SEO and featured image 7 March 2017.
A nice collection of pictures John!
I really like the unusual ones. The red leaves and light house are all very nice but a bit ordinary compared to some of the others. The abstract one, the hands and the snowy sun all works really well. I think my favourite is the face, partly because it is such an unusal use of a theatre pic.
Cheerio
The duckling is by far my favourite! Beautiful!
I like the duck one. Evocative of Basho’s “Old Pond” haiku))
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i like the duck in ripples & lush colors of autumn , lovely
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Little Britain, no doubt about it!
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Many thanks for the comments Kristina, Silia, Varenjka, Del & Axel!
Looks like the Duck banner is in the lead.
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Awesome work! I like the child’s hands best, also the portrait.
Thanks Bibeau.
Welcome back 🙂