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Autumn Agave
25 September 2024
The fall has spread its shadow over our days and the Fall Foliage Prediction Map is already waiting for it the spectacular display of dying leaves.
Autumn Agave. Olympus E-PL1 with 14-42mm II R kit lens at 41mm (82mm equivalent), f8, 1/640 second and ISO 200.
But the green agave has something to say about all that. We wandered by a particularly robust one the other day and just had to stop to make its portrait.
We were working without the VF-2 electronic viewfinder attached to the Olympus, so we composed using the LCD. And that's not a bright idea in full sun. So we couldn't really see what we were doing, double vision notwithstanding.
Our composition, in fact wasn't horizontal as seen in large image, but vertical as seen in the smaller camera JPEG image to the right.
But we had a vertical spot for this elsewhere on our site, so we made a vertical crop. And fell in love with it.
The agave seemed to be bursting with energy, exploding from its center as far as it could reach. An energy often absent in autumn images.
Some things stay green in the fall. And they simply are not to be missed.