Autumn Leaves and Winter

[fujita yuji]

Hi, forumates.
Been a while since I posted last time.

I've got some autumn leaves shots at last, those I want to share with you
along with some wildlife shots those made me think something..

Took these shots at Kencho-ji temple.
Autumn is now ending and winter is to come at last.

Taken within my guarden, this guy looks like thinking deeply beside water.

Actually not. There lives a hawk (An accipter, maybe a sparrowhawk)
within the valley my house is located. So he's watching the sky.
Doves watch things intensively by facing their one side of the head to the object,
not like we humans or predatory spices with binocular vision.

A flock of sparrows come regularly to my garden.

He's a senior bird. Looks very much experienced and confident.

This is a young bird, born this spring. Looks quite healthy and strong.
Doing very well so far.

Apparently this one is not doing very well so far.

Come to think of sparrowhawk and shrike around my house, it should be
quite hard for it to survive this winter and see next spring.

Season of natural selection is about to begin.

 

[Mistwalker]

Outstanding photos Fujita!! All are beautiful, but I'd love to have that second one framed. I always look forward to the pictures you post. Thanks for sharing them.

 

[fujita yuji]

Thanks for your words, mistwalker.
And for the framing matter, I think you are right.

 

[Mentor]

Outstanding photos indeed! The first two have a sense of depth and scope that I find difficult to achieve when taking photographs of woodland settings. I often come away with pictures of a 'bunch of trees', whereas these photos really give a sense of 'the forest'.

Nice shots of the birds, too. Even the scruffy one.

Thanks for sharing,

- Mike

 

[fujita yuji]

Thanks Mentor for your favorable response.

Let me confess that there's a trick within those shots you mentioned as `depth'.
Fallen leaves are being combusted around and the air is quite smokey, which
you can see two guys at the bottom of the second shot.

 

[tonym]

Love the photos, thanks a bunch!

 

[kgd]

Fujita, those first two shots are magical. The first picture looks as though it were a painting and the artist chose chalk in pastels for their work. The bird shots are also nice. Having raised doves before, no matter how solemn a dove may look, it is never thinking too hard. Well, actually it is always thinking hard, but its thoughts move between two fleeting commands......Sex....Food......Sex....Food

 

[KuRUpTD]

Excellent photos Fujita :thumbup:

 

[Mistwalker]

Having raised doves before, no matter how solemn a dove may look, it is never thinking too hard. Well, actually it is always thinking hard, but its thoughts move between two fleeting commands......Sex....Food......Sex....Food

Well...what else is there for them to think about? They don't have much need for knives


.

 

[matthewdanger]

Thanks for sharing all the pics. That second shot is especially beautiful!

 

[WILLIAM.M]

love the photos, thanks a bunch!

I agree with Tony

Keep Em coming Bro

 

[dawsonbob]

Thank you, Fujita, for your wonderful pictures. Your pictures are always great.

 

[Sharp Eye]

Great photos.
Thanks for sharing them.

 

[mtnfolk mike]

awesome pics as usual Fujita...:thumbup: where's the knife shot?? i love that knife of yours...

 

[kgd]

Taken within my guarden, this guy looks like thinking deeply beside water.

Yes, he is deep in thought. At this moment in time he is thinking......SEX.....

 

[brians]

fantastic color on the first few - great pics

 

[Rockywolf]

Your pics give me a peaceful feeling. very cool.

 

[LMT66]

Hi, forumates.
Been a while since I posted last time.

I've got some autumn leaves shots at last, those I want to share with you
along with some wildlife shots those made me think something..

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Beautiful photo!
Is that a hillside gravesite? Looks like headstones in the photo.

 

[REKCUT]

Wow, those are some great photos. You really know how to take great photographs. Thank you for sharing.

 

[fujita yuji]

Thank you all guys. I'm very happy you like them.

two fleeting commands......Sex....Food......Sex....Food

Hahaha! well said, Ken.
In this case, he's a wild bird and not in a breeding season that all he's thinking is
Food Food Food ....... Security and Survival.... More Food!!

Well...what else is there for them to think about? They don't have much need for knives .

That said, all I'm thinking is going around three disciplines, Sex, Food and Blade.

awesome pics as usual Fujita...:thumbup: where's the knife shot?? i love that knife of yours...

Sorry, no blade shot this time as I had no chance to use it.

Beautiful photo!
Is that a hillside gravesite? Looks like headstones in the photo.

Thanks, PorcupineMtns66.
They maybe figures and statues of various Bodhisattvae (not sure about
plural form ).

Thanks again for looking and giving great responses!