Even More October Pictures

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1. PixelFish says:
   October 26, 2009 at 4:26 pm

   Gorgeous. I’m glad your brain is occasionally more visual than wordy, if this is what comes along.

   (I’m sure this has been addressed before, but what camera/lenses are you using to take these shots?)
2. Catherine says:
   October 26, 2009 at 4:27 pm

   Lovely…wish my camera would let me do some of these things…
3. hyperpat says:
   October 26, 2009 at 4:28 pm

   Have you ever thought of doing professional photography? Pictures 1,2, & 5 above show a great eye for composition and color, and you’ve posted a lot of others in the past just as good.
4. John Scalzi says:
   October 26, 2009 at 4:28 pm

   Pixelfish:

   Nikon D70s, standard 50 – 200 mm lens. Plus some minimal cleanup in Photoshop.

   Hyperpat:

   Nah, I prefer to keep it a hobby.
5. Mel says:
   October 26, 2009 at 4:33 pm

   I think your tree is on fire. with awesome.
6. Monkee says:
   October 26, 2009 at 4:35 pm

   Wonderful lovely photos! I agree with the above comment; most of the photos I’ve seen you post have been far better than your “average Joe” snapping away. Glad to see someone so well-rounded! ;D
7. Sean Eric Fagan says:
   October 26, 2009 at 4:47 pm

   Lessee. Successful non-fiction writer. Successful fiction writer. Burgeoning TV career. Beautiful wife and daughter. Pretty and quirky pets. And a bloody good photographer.

   If you weren’t so gosh-darned likable, you’d be an easy man to hate.

   8-)
8. Tumbleweed says:
   October 26, 2009 at 4:54 pm

   Way to go, Ohio.
9. Shanon says:
   October 26, 2009 at 5:00 pm

   An artist will be an artist – living in FL doesn’t allow for much chance to see the seasonal transitions – Thank you.
10. hugh57 says:
    October 26, 2009 at 5:20 pm

    Keep this up, and we’ll have to nominate you for Best Fan Artist at the Hugos. You just need to Photoshop a dragon or a spaceship in there once in a while.
11. erincerulean says:
    October 26, 2009 at 5:22 pm

    5th one down, with the silouhetted trunk and colorful leaves is especially gorgeous.
12. Michael Adam says:
    October 26, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    It sure would be nice to experience the seasonal changes. Here just north of L.A. we know fall starts when the wind (lovely hot and dry Santa Ana winds) starts to kick up. They sweep right down the hills and across the entire valley. Naturally it gets very dry.

    Oh yeah, and then the hills burn.

    Repeat yearly.
13. Steve Saus says:
    October 26, 2009 at 5:28 pm

    Agreed with all the above. Those are some gorgeous pictures. Even here in Dayton, they’re still pretty nice… but not quite as good as what you’ve captured here.

    Thanks for sharing these. It’s my first day back to work after a week off, and being in windowless rooms at work and school was starting to wear on me.
14. Pengwenn says:
    October 26, 2009 at 5:44 pm

    All right, who’s job is it to rake those leaves when they start to fall? Or do you just leave them on the ground as mulch for next spring?
15. Rebecca Knight says:
    October 26, 2009 at 5:48 pm

    Changing leaves are my favorite, and they’re gone too soon. Thanks for sharing the photos! Absolutely gorgeous.
16. rvdtg says:
    October 26, 2009 at 5:53 pm

    Wow!

    I’d love to have those pics as a wallpaper :)
17. mymatedave says:
    October 26, 2009 at 6:33 pm

    Pretty. Very pretty.
18. jrbooth says:
    October 26, 2009 at 6:34 pm

    This is the time of year when the season itself provides about a thousand answers to everyone who asks me, “You moved from Florida back to Ohio? Why?”
19. Luisa Perkins says:
    October 26, 2009 at 6:41 pm

    Really great shots–it was that kind of glorious day here, too.
20. Xopher says:
    October 26, 2009 at 6:43 pm

    Wow. Just wow.

    The one with the sun behind the tree is my favorite. That’s glorious.

    John, even if it’s just a hobby, you could have some of these shots up at the art show at a WorldCon. I’m not saying sell them, but…wow.
21. GillianA says:
    October 26, 2009 at 7:14 pm

    Mmm! October! A gorgeous month here in the UK too.
22. Pam Adams says:
    October 26, 2009 at 7:25 pm

    I put one up as a temporary background- the liquidambars won’t be changing until December or so.
23. lee s says:
    October 26, 2009 at 7:28 pm

    The top and bottom shots remind me of opening sequences from certain halloween horror flicks.

    Don’t go too far into the corn…just…don’t.
24. Berry K says:
    October 26, 2009 at 7:43 pm

    Gosh, you’re lucky. Your place is beautiful, your daughter is beautiful, your wife is beautiful, your fans … um … your wife is beautiful!

    Enjoy it!
25. Stephen says:
    October 26, 2009 at 7:47 pm

    I’ve never lived in a place that did autumn colours. The joke around here is that our trees don’t drop their leaves, they shed their bark instead.

    Photos like these make me aware of what I’m missing.
26. LeftField says:
    October 26, 2009 at 7:52 pm

    Awesome as I said before, certainly reminds of of Missouri.
    Looks like you live in a pretty rural area, I am curious how you are connected to the internets?
27. John Scalzi says:
    October 26, 2009 at 7:52 pm

    DSL.
28. Chris says:
    October 26, 2009 at 8:30 pm

    Cornfields creep me right out.

    /cityboy
29. John Scalzi says:
    October 26, 2009 at 8:45 pm

    Oh, Chris. Hardly anyone gets murdered in a cornfield anymore. ‘Cept them what need murderin’.
30. David Moody says:
    October 27, 2009 at 2:09 am

    God, but I miss the fall in Virginia. Not that the Central Valley just ain’t just the bomb to live in but other than the fruit trees and pollen so thick you can sneeze it out…..
31. turtlesong says:
    October 27, 2009 at 3:12 am

    i have a thing for trees and your pics are simply stunning. thank you for sharing them. :)
32. rob says:
    October 27, 2009 at 4:59 am

    Thanks for posting these pictures. This year, I’ll be in a place with no foliage or fall, at least I have your pictures.

    People who don’t live in a place with 4 seasons miss out on how awesome autumn is.
33. Doug says:
    October 27, 2009 at 6:04 am

    Hugh57 (#10), you don’t see the dragons and the spaceships?
34. John Scalzi says:
    October 27, 2009 at 6:09 am

    Hugh57, if I got nominated as Best Fan Artist, I do believe I would be murdered.
35. LizrdGizrd says:
    October 27, 2009 at 11:01 am

    Any chance we could get bigger versions of these pics to use for wallpaper?

    Pretty please?

    With bacon on top?
36. John Scalzi says:
    October 27, 2009 at 11:05 am

    LizrdGizrd, you haven’t read any more recent entries than this one, apparently.
37. LizrdGizrd says:
    October 27, 2009 at 11:07 am

    Ask and ye shall receive, even if you’re behind on your RSS feed. ;)
38. TKay says:
    October 27, 2009 at 1:50 pm

    And *this* is why October is my favorite month.
39. JustaTech says:
    October 27, 2009 at 6:37 pm

    Now, that’s one thing I miss about living back East, that blue blue blue sky in fall. What? What color is the sky here? Gray. Ask any month except July, when it’s “Sun up too early! Bright!”

    And some people want to live without seasons! Why would anyone want to miss *that*?

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