I paid Quabbin Park one more visit on Monday. Although I do pay repeat visits to locations I don’t usually do so for several days in a row. But the park called me hither during my vacation week with a trip or two northward mixed in.
Just before the shot of distant illuminated foliage I noticed this Ginkgo tree bright against an otherwise dull part of the landscape.
It stood out against all else but I focused on it alone as there was a white sky above (darkened a bit using a Selective Color adjustment), a guardrail to the left side, and a dirt road to the right.
Stephen Gingold Nature Photography Blog 
A white sky can be the bane of our nature photography. It’s good you were able to tone this one down.
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I “settled” for this composition to avoid more sky. There is a slightly better angle but the sky would become dominant.
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Very striking!
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Thanks, Eliza!
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I love gingkoes in the autumn and your photo was great for helping us focus on its full glory, away from the dirt road and guardrail. Lovely photo, Steve.
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Thanks, Jet! I felt it was glorious and deserved to stand alone without distractions. Plus the cable guardrails are ugly. 🙂
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Beautiful! It always amazes me how the leaves all fall together, as if overnight. I’m not aware of any other tree doing it as dramatically.
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Bald cypress! I still remember with awe the year several of them in my complex had turned a beautiful rusty brown. When I left for work one morning, all of the leaves were on all the trees. When I came home for lunch a few hours later, every one of those trees had completely dropped its needles, and done so on a day without wind. It was as though they’d had a meeting, and decided the day had come.
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Thanks, Susan! I’ve never witnessed that and only now am aware that it happens that way. Our town recently planted hundreds of roadside trees and several are Ginkgos so I’ll have to pay closer attention.
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I especially like the way ginkos and cottonwoods keep a hint of green in their leaves as they turn. It creates an unusual and pleasing color.
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I see that combination on other leaves and it is pleasing. We have a large planting of hostas that are similar.
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Yes … this yellow calls for the exclamation point! It stands out so well among the darker colors. Well done.
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Thank you! It was very attention grabbing on a very dull day. It’s amazing how some colors just beam in the low light.
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I have a thing for Ginkgos and maybe I’ve said that before. This is a pleasure to see. They’re planted around here sporadically but not often enough and I don’t know if any nice big ones. Plus I don’t think they’d get that solid yellow color in this climate.
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One of the other commenters on my posts although not this one, Todd, recently posted about a location he visited with a huge number of Ginkgos absolutely filling frames. Looks like a fantastic spot.
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Found it, thanks! Yes, so nice to see them en masse.
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Glad you visited and enjoyed Todd’s post. I should have provided a link. My bad. 🙂
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