'Tis the season when things get all colorful:
Colorful leaves on a tree in the front yard of Chateau Steelypips.
Not much to say other than that, really. This is the tree next to our driveway, shot with the 50mm f/1.8 lens. I spent a while shuffling around underneath the tree finding just the right angle-- getting the in-focus leaves against the sky and clear of the background ones-- but I'm pretty happy with how this came out.
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