This year I am considering imposing a restriction on myself as far as photographing fall colors. Last year I drove 10 hours away to photograph fall colors in the Smoky Mountains and Hocking Hills and spent little time right out my own back door. While walking my malamute through the woods today, I decided I needed to spend more time getting to know them during fall. Already interesting things are starting to happen there. So this year, I am going to shoot fall only in the woods around my house – all walking distance. I’ll also take it as a challenge, because I have no grand landscapes around my home, only small intimate settings like above. I’ll consider it my anti-grand-landscape-get-to-know-your-woods project.  This was shot a couple of years ago, about a 20 minute walk from my back door. Save gas, save time, and get to know my woods a little better – sounds like an overall good plan to me.