Autumn

Evidence of autumn in Northwest Florida is more subtle than you'll find in other places. We have a few deciduous trees who turn to familiar fall colors but mostly you see the changes in the grasses, shrubs, all of the gold and purple wildflowers, ripening fruits like wild persimmons, or in nuts such as the pecans and chestnuts I posted about earlier.

Most of what you see here are unremarkable in and of themselves, until you try to photograph them and then you find out how complex and unyielding they are. Throw all the good glass at them you want, unless you marry it up with the right lighting at the right moment they're not giving up their more subtle aspects. From a photographer's point of view that might be what makes them such beauties.

Photographed in East Milton and Gulf Breeze in Santa Rosa County.