Penning Photography Daily

One thing I’ve worked to learn, in my 33 years of marriage to my dear bride Karen Sue, is to try to really hear what she says. Many times, I fail miserably, but there are times I can point to where her words of advice have made a tremendous difference to me. This photograph is one of those times when I did listen, hear what she said and took heed.

“You have to go and take a photograph of the red maple on Washington Street. It’s absolutely gorgeous!” said my partner and bride, Karen Sue.

I took her advice today and here’s the result.

I figured that I wanted those red leaves to have a full sun behind them, so I waited until after four o’clock in the afternoon. The sun was still in front of the golden hour, so the color is not yet colored with the long rays of the near-sunset light. I positioned myself so the trunk of the tree was blocking the sun’s disk and the leaves were glowing.

One nice added touch, is the dots of red leaves laying on top of the new green growth of grass.

The sky could not have been better. A nice blue with a covering of white but smoothly-chaotic clouds to add interest.

This might make up for the countless other times that I fail to fully hear. Just maybe.