Exploring Autumn Colors: End of the Line

After going full abstract in last week’s image of Thursday Throwback – 9, let’s got for something a bit more representational. This one comes from the year 2009, during which I did a bit of experimentation with HDR imaging. A great time for those kind of japes is Autumn, as New England throws a pretty spectacular one!

Let’s check out this image…

On a lovely autumn day, I was just chasing the colors and found myself in the town of Montague. As I was exploring, I went under a railroad bridge and noticed that there appeared to be no track on either side. After clambering up the stone abutment, I got a glimpse of this scene in front of me.

I shot several sequences with slightly different composition and settled on this one. There was a bit more breeze than ideal, making it impossible to get all the leaves to not ghost. Nevertheless, I think that even with a bit of ghosting this still is pretty effective in capturing the saturated Autumn mood.

Curious to hear what you think.

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niasunset

February 6, 2025 at 7:16 am

For me you captured a wonderful Autumn colours and created amazing composition too. The (old and not to be used anymore) railway giving another touches too, I mean it is not only an Autumn, it is also nostalgic touches of our life too, something like that in my words what I could explained. Thank you, Have a wonderful day, Love, nia

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1. jansenphoto
  
  February 6, 2025 at 7:47 am
  
  Thank you so much for your truly insightful comments on this image. I really appreciate your interpretation. Have a lovely day, Frank
  
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  1. niasunset
    
    February 7, 2025 at 12:48 am
    
    You are welcome, have a nice day dear Frank, Love, nia
    
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Nicole Sara

February 6, 2025 at 8:09 am

It has a gorgeous creamy shine, added to the autumn brightness somehow, it really is lovely, both in color and composition. I especially love the idea of the mossy wooden boards, like a temporary passage stretching ahead, limited and fleeting on the horizontal, and in contrast but also complementary, the verticalness of the splendidly colored trees… more lasting. They also look and feel like a shelter offering protection, but also inspiring freedom 🙂 Leading life lines…

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1. jansenphoto
  
  February 6, 2025 at 9:45 am
  
  Nicole, Wow! What a perfect description of a lot of the factors that I tried to get into the composition of this image. Also, I made sure to process the colors to provide a sense of the surreal, while trying to not over-saturate.
  
  Makes me think that I should put together a post about how my processing of images has evolved over the years.
  
  Thank you very much!
  
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  1. Nicole Sara
    
    February 6, 2025 at 11:48 am
    
    Happy it suited your intentions too, in your editing process. A sense of the surreal… very nicely said… and done! 🙂 And, yes, such a post would be quite interesting, and a real source of inspiration as well.
    
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  2. jansenphoto
    
    February 6, 2025 at 7:20 pm
    
    Consider it added to my list.
    
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