"The autumn leaves of red and gold"

It is definitely autumn now. The lawns are covered with leaves, mainly beech and ash at the moment. I picked lovely autumn raspberries and apples today.

My blip is a metal sculpture that hangs over the stairs at home. It was a present from my first flute teacher (I was an adult learner) and he put it in his will as a bequest. He moved into sheltered accommodation, so the leaves came to me a few years before he died. I am very fond of them and always grateful he gave them to me.

I played around with my new flash gun using different angles to bounce the light from the ceiling and walls. I finally settled for this shot. In the images where the shadows and the highlights were totally obliterated, the leaves looked flat and "dead".