Filling the Hollows

Very nice composition, Preston. This works as an intimate and as an abstract. The colors are very restrained but realistic. This needs to be seen in the large version which has a glow to it that the other lacks. I think that it's this luminosity that I like most about this image. The image jumps out at you. One of your recent best.

Nice take of Sleepy Hollows in Columbia. Well seen and composed. I would be tempted to ramp up the vibrance on the image, which is really just on the leaves. Looks nice as presented, but strikes me as a little flat. Good take. 

The image is beautifully balanced. The oak leaves show their natural but somewhat drab color.

Preston,

This is excellent! I think this is composed perfectly and I really like the balance between the rock (same marble stone as previously?) and the oak leaves.  There's a nice flow to this top to bottom, bottom to top.  One of my first impressions or observation was that this is like a negative or inverse of your previous image.  Previous image had the marble stone as the main focus and the leaves were the accent fill.  Here, although there's nice balance between the rock and leaves, for me, the flow of the leaves is the main story and the stone is the supporting cast.  Not sure if that makes sense.

Very little suggest - perhaps burning down the rock on the middle right edge, but that's minor.

Regarding the color of the leave, they look like I think they might look - given the assumption these have been on the ground for a while, or a case where the leaves on the tree went straight to brown (like we saw in many of the oaks in Yosemite this year.) Could you squeeze some pop or color out of this, I suppose you could, but I would be wary of letting those little green blades of grass to neon on you. ;-)  

This is wonderful and beautifully seen!

Lon

The composition is what I like most about this image. Nice flow throughout. The leaves seem a tad flat to me but certainly not enough to keep me from enjoying this well seen image.

Preston, I really like the visual flow you have achieved in this image, this composition is very well thought out. It does almost look like a waterfall of leaves flowing out of the bottom of the frame. I think the color of the leaves is fine, to punch that up risks drawing too much attention to them, while I think the pleasing arrangement of rocks is what the viewer should be focused on.

This has such a wonderful flow and balance to it, Preston. Color wise everything looks very natural to me. I think this is a scene a lot of us would not have noticed, but I am glad you did.

Ed

Love the composition Preston, or river of leaves among the curves of those rocks. A lot warm tones throughout the scene, I'm wondering about going a touch cooler in the rocks to complement the leaves.

This is really well seen, Preston.  I do agree with Harley that I would bump the luminance and the saturation a little.  It does have a subtle feel to it as presented that's very appealing.

I like this image a lot. The shape of the rocks is very interesting, and the contrast with the texture and color of the leaves is nice. The color of the leaves is perfectly natural to me, but I could see it punched up a little bit (maybe this looks better in my head than it would in reality).

Preston, my first impression on viewing the thumbnail was veins of gold. I really like this one for that reason. Nice fall photo, well seen to capture it. I could see a bit more vibrance added to this one as well.