This weeks (now last week’s) WordPress Photo challenge is “Fall” or Autumn. When I saw this week’s theme I thought great! We are in England and the leaves are turning wonderful shades of gold and amber. The leaves are falling from the trees so I wanted to photograph them floating in the wind. Well, that was the idea! In practice an hour later and nothing! Is to do with shutter speed? Anyway, I was walking back down the country lane feeling quite dejected when I spotted many different berries in the hedgerows.
Autumn's Hedgerow Harvest
Rosehips in the hedgerow
A feast of berries in the hedgerow
I used to love walking in the country picking and eating the blackberry when i was younger.
Hi DP problem is nowadays the berries that grow by the roadside are polluted
We have to go into the fields now, far away from the traffic.
Did you make sloe gin?
I love to photograph berries, your photos are great. I have a hankering for a blackberry pie….. and we do not have wild blackberries here in Ontario.
Hi MAggie, thanks for the compliment re my piccies.
I have tried to find yor website and it says page not found
I tried to capture a photo of a leaf falling to the ground last year. Impossible. I know how you feel.
There must be a way. Have you figured it out yet?
Hi Christine,
I need Jan to make some suggestions, me thinks
Beautiful berries, PiP! Enjoy all the fall colors.
I know that I’ve captured some wonderful shots of fall leaves (in New England and the mountains) . . . but I don’t know if any were fall-ing leaves.
Good luck.
I loved your “fall” shots. The blackberries are tempting!
I think a bumper crop of berries has more to do with the type of spring and summer the plants have had, and possibly the previous winter, rather than a prediction of the future….
But when your horse grows an extra thick winter coat…. look out!
So a bumper crop of berries means a hard winter is an old wives tale then
Falling leaves … tricky! Using flash will freeze the movement if within range of the flash. Using a tripod and a slower shutter speed, without flash, may convey the movement better and appear more natural and dynamic. Good luck!
Hi Gabriel and welcome!
Thank you so much for the advice – I will give it a go
I also stood for ages trying to capture a falling leaf, all I can say is thank goodness for digital, had it been film I would have wasted a lot of it in my unsuccessful quest. Your berries and rosehips are great.
Hi Ronnie,
Sounds like we have the same creative spirit!
PiP
I hope that’s not true about a hard winter
Hi Tilly,
Acording to Hortophile above, no. The weather people forecast a hard winter in the UK this winter. Last winter was bad enough I had to cancel my flight because of the snow! Hope its not the same this year
I have a freezer full of blackberries
yum!!
Stop, you are making me jealous. I’ve not seen blackberries in the Algarve
I love the berries… and that they have so many makes me wonder too… Hopefully, the bumper crop is just that; an abundance of blessings!
Enjoy your time.
Hope so too Eliz
The blackberries look juicy and divine!
Hi Carlaat,
Mr Piglet was eating them straignt from the bush. He said they were delicious but I prefer to de-maggot them first!
Thanks for the link too, Piglet!
No probs I loved your photo!
cool pics how long are you in england? do you go often?
Hi Patty,
I have now left England and am now in France but will be back again soon!
mmm, I love those tasty blackberries: Fresh, in a cobbler, in jelly or most any old way. Yum!
Great photos and thoughts for the Fall photo theme.
Thanks for the mention and link. You’re so sweet to do that.
Both uses of berries sound delicious! I wish I was back in England now, I would be picking and storing them for the winter!
Blackberries, how yummy! We had wild bushes in the village where we lived in Portugal (near Viseu) and I enjoyed going for walks and picking and eating them straight off the bush.
Hi Sami,
Perhaps it’s because we live near the sea I have never seen them. Wild fig trees seem more common. I am on a mission to see if I can find any hedgerows now
Berries are probably my favorite fruit. We had dewberry vines when I was growing up. I’ve never seen them since, but your photos remind me of them!
Hi Rose,
Berries are also probably my favourite fruit…as you know with strawberries. However, blueberries, loganberries, cranberries etc seem to be very expensive here in Portugal. Perhaps they are just not very popular.
I think I may try to grow some.
Lovely pictures. Sorry I haven’t been around for a while to comment, but I’m back. It is hard to get leaves as they fall, but someday you will get a lucky shot I’m sure.
PiP, these are lovely. I felt like I was there, picking berries with you.
Berry nice photos.
Very nice shots indeed. I love grazing off bushes like this when I go for my autumn walks
i love these – you are so lucky to have hedgerows of berries
yummy
Your post makes me think of when I lived in the country-sure do miss those strolls across the grassy fields. Nice photos – your lucky to be able to have fresh berries within reach-they look delicious !!
Beautiful photos. They give a promise of a delicious dessert in the very near future!
Those rosehips are amazing! I think that photo actually does the real thing justice (and I think rosehips are about the prettiest thing on earth
Beautiful, Piglet!