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Visions of Autumn Photographs & Photo Art from 2017 Volume 2: Mid Autumn
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First Published December 2017 Š D J Favager 2017
Front Cover: Fields at Poulton Lancelyn (distorted) Back Cover: Autumn Trees between Storeton and Brimstage (distorted)
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“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." ― Nathaniel Hawthorne 4
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Contents Visions of Autumn page 7 Storeton page 10 Spital, Raby & Dibbinsdale page 36 Bebington page 82 Brimstage page 98 Storeton Ridge page 116
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Visions of Autumn “What is autumn? Here is a very simple definition: Autumn is a Queen, Queen of Beauty!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan Nathaniel Hawthorne had it spot on. It seems criminal to be inside on a fine autumn day. To be stuck in the office is bad enough but you have no choice; to stay at home is unforgiveable. This was particularly the4 case in the autumn of 2017 when fine days were rare and sunshine at a premium. On one particularly glorious afternoon I took a walk across the fields to get some photos. I didn’t think the results were particularly good but one of the photos I took that day ended up in the local paper. Things turn out like that sometimes! A couple of weeks later I visited Rivacre country park (see volume 3); it began to rain and I decided to return to the station. Then the skies brightened and the sun returned. I turned back to get a few more pictures. One of those ended up in the paper too!
Autumn Fields near Spital
“Samhain is the threshold to the Season of Death. The fertile fields of summer give way to the bare forests of autumn. As crops slowly die and winter takes over, the cycle of life is once again approaching a renewal.” ― Dacha Avelin
I hope you enjoy this second volume in my latest collection of photos, photo art, poems and literary quotations all selected to capture visions of autumn at its very best.
David
“Autumn is autumn.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita 7
“Yorkshire's autumn was as great a gift as Yorkshire's summer. I loved watching the rusting of the leaves while the dales mellowed to shades of ochre, and rose hips and blackberries grew deliciously fat on their branches. The morning mists were mystical and magical to me, and the rose-glow of the evening sun lent the sky a hypnotic light that matched any Cape Town sunset.” ― Hazel Gaynor
“An autumn forest is such a place that once entered you never look for the exit!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan “Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan “There is only one autumn in a year, but in people’s life, there are many autumns in one year!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
“Sometimes I ask myself how autumn smells? My answer: it's the smell of the autumn leaves, fireworks and red wine.” ― Bryanna Reid “Life is like an Autumn; short but colourful.” ― Zain Baloch “The might of life honors the waning sun of Autumn be-decking the landscape in a fancy blaze of tangerine.” ― Tara Estacaan “If only humans could die like the autumn leaves, with a splash of beauty and the promise of another season.” ― Shana Chartier
Autumn in Dibbinsdale 8
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Storeton
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Storeton Woods
Storeton Woods (distorted)
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Leaves in Storeton Woods
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Log with Autumn Leaves
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Log with Autumn Leaves (cubist)
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Log with Autumn Leaves (crystal)
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Log with Autumn Leaves (distorted)
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Sun through Trees at Storeton (cubist)
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Sun through Trees at Storeton (distorted)
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View across the Fields, Storeton (distorted)
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Farm, Storeton Village
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Storeton Village in Autumn
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Storeton Village in Autumn (cubist)
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Storeton Village in Autumn (distorted)
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Causeway, Storeton (distorted)
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Pumpkins, Storeton
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Storeton Woods with Bare Trees and People
Storeton Woods with Bare Trees and People (distorted)
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Trees and Field, Storeton Woods (crystal)
Trees and Field, Storeton Woods (distorted)
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Trees and Fields in Autumn (cubist)
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Trees and Fields in Autumn (crystal)
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Trees and Fields in Autumn (distorted)
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Storeton Woods with Bare Trees
Storeton Woods with Bare Trees (distorted)
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Path in Storeton woods
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Narrow Path in Storeton Woods
Narrow Path in Storeton Woods (distorted)
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Track in Storeton Woods
Track in Storeton Woods (distorted)
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Spital, Raby and Dibbinsdale
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Fields at Poulton Lancelyn
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Fields at Poulton Lancelyn (distorted)
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Fields at Poulton Lancelyn in Autumn (original and distorted) 39
Autumn Trees at Poulton Lancelyn (original, cubist, crystal and distorted) 40
Two Trees
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Two Trees (cubist)
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Two Trees (crystal)
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Two Trees (distorted)
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Autumn Fields Poulton Lancelyn
Autumn Fields Poulton Lancelyn (distorted)
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Autumn Field with Trees
“His beard was all colors, a grove of trees in autumn, deep brown and fire-orange and wine-red, an untrimmed tangle across the lower half of his face. His cheeks were apple-red. He looked like a friend; like someone you had known all your life.” ― Neil Gaiman, 46
Road to Dibbinsdale
Road to Dibbinsdale (distorted)
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Trees with Barn
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Road to Raby Mere (original, crystal and distorted) 49
Raby Mere
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Autumn Foliage at Raby Mere
Autumn Foliage at Raby Mere (distorted)
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Autumn Foliage Triptych
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Lane at Raby Mere
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Cottage at Raby Mere
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Cottage at Raby Mere (distorted)
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Cottage with Trees Raby Mere
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Cottage with Trees Raby Mere (distorted)
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Raby Mere in Autumn
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Raby Mere in Autumn (distorted)
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Raby Mere on a Dull Day
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Autumn at Raby Mere
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Autumn at Raby Mere (distorted)
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Autumn at Raby Mere (detail, distorted)
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Raby Mere with Autumn Foliage
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Raby Mere with Autumn Foliage (distorted)
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Stream at Raby Mere in Autumn (crystal)
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Stream at Raby Mere in Autumn (distorted)
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Autumn Leaves Triptych
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Farm, Poulton Lancelyn
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Farm, Poulton Lancelyn (distorted)
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Tree near Poulton Lancelyn (original and distorted) 71
Tree with Ploughed Field (original and distorted)
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Tree with Autumn Sky
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Tree with Autumn Sky (distorted)
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Path, Dibbinsdale
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Path, Dibbinsdale (cubist)
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Path, Dibbinsdale (crystal)
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Path, Dibbinsdale (distorted)
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River Dibbin in Autumn (crystal)
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River Dibbin in Autumn (distorted)
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Bebington
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Autumn Trees in a Cemetery (cubist)
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Autumn Trees in a Cemetery (distorted)
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Cemetery in Autumn (four views) 85
Trees in a Cemetery (cubist)
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Park in Autumn
Park in Autumn (cubist)
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Park in Autumn (distorted)
Tree in Autumn, Brackenwood (cubist)
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Tree in Autumn, Brackenwood (crystal)
Tree in Autumn, Brackenwood (distorted)
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Red Hill Road
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Red Hill Road (cubist)
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Red Hill Road (crystal)
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Red Hill Road (distorted)
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View Down Red Hill Road (distorted)
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Footpath to Rest Hill Road (cubist)
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Footpath to Rest Hill Road (distorted)
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Brimstage
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Tree, Late Autumn Afternoon
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Trees – Life and Death
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Trees – Life and Death (cubist)
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Trees – Life and Death (distorted)
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Lane at Brimstage
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House at Brimstage
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Autumn at Brimstage
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Autumn at Brimstage (cubist)
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Late Afternoon in Autumn (cubist)
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Brimstage Village
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Autumn Trees, Brimstage
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Autumn Trees, Brimstage (cubist)
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Autumn Trees, Brimstage (crystal)
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Autumn Trees, Brimstage (distorted)
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Autumn Gold, Brimstage
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Gate at Brimstage (photo featured in the Wirral Globe Wednesday November 22nd 2017)
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Storeton Ridge
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Storeton Ridge in Autumn
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Tree and Style
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Cottage near Storeton
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Footpath, Storeton Woods
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Path along Storeton Woods
Path along Storeton Woods (distorted)
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