A Walk in Autumn

[akirlu]

I don't get out of the office enough. My train schedule makes for short days, so I usually skip lunch or eat it at my desk. Today I had a work errand on main campus and decided to bring the camera with me. The light was kinda crappy but it's good to see the fall progressing on main campus. I miss that so. I also collected a pocketful of horse chestnuts, and more photos.

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[sartorias.livejournal.com]

The lighting is just magical, so diffuse.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Around these parts, we call that "cloudy". :) Oh, well, at least it wasn't raining. (Not that I mind rain in the ordinary way, but it isn't that good for photography.)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Whoa, cloudy, what a concept....I know it theoretically exists, same as cold, but I find it hard to believe either exist.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean. When I was still at Irvine I was packing for a trip to Sweden around this time of year, and we were having one of those 100 degree heat waves, but I was packing for Sweden in October so I knew intellectually that I needed to pack wool sweaters and heavy boots and socks and such, but it was so hot in the apartment that I almost could not bring myself to do it. My gut could not believe that there was anywhere on Earth that wasn't sweltering hot.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Yes! If I had the great good luck to go to WFC, I'm sure I'd pack my best sleeveless t-shirts and shorts. And I don't own any shoes besides my sandals.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Those are handsome geraniums. I like the third photo a lot.

Sometimes in the fall I really miss Seattle. And then I wake up.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Having a real fall is one of the things that continues to please me six years on. The Bay Area isn't so very bad, but Southern California doesn't get a proper autumn, and so I pined for one for years.

I like the way the geraniums somehow gained an air of fecund mystery by way of the tight close up. In real life, they're a very mundane concrete planter of ivy geraniums by Schmitz Hall.

Third photo - thanks! I wish it caught the color and the light better -- the range of colors and the luminous quality of the leaves were much more striking in real life. But I'm not that good at compensating for the mucky, gray light.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think you are. That's an awfully good photo, that third one.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Well. Gosh, thanks!

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Those leaves look oddly familiar.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

That *geranium* should look bloody familiar. It lives outside your building.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

That old-fashioned kind of geranium is pretty much invisible to me. Wallpaper, I tell ya.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that makes sense. They are the generic potted plant, somehow.