Taken this past autumn, at the pond again. The realization that fall had arrived finally hit me on the visit I used to take this shot. It was cold, there were no frogs, the trees above our heads were bare. There's just something about fall that makes everything seem so eerie. Now that it's winter, I wish I was back in the fall -- winter makes everything seem suffocated.

This photo has been postworked quite a bit, but it was alot of effort for not much effect -- it doesn't look that different than how it started. Mostly it's just more contrasty, which I like, and I used part of the leaf near the top to fill in the overly-glared center of the middle leaf. Not nearly enough to justify putting it in the Photomanipulation gallery (I figure that you can do a fair amount of postwork and still put it in the Photography gallery if said postwork is only to enhance what's already there, as opposed to add something new or alter it drastically).

More soon!