Mini Challenge #795: Fall

[Dak on cam]

This Challenge starts right now and ends at October 20th, 2025, 24:00 GMT (so at the end of Monday in the UK). It will be some hours earlier in the U.S. If you are not sure about your zone, submit timely.

Maximum of three entries and ten exhibits per member, so take your time and choose carefully. 1st, 2nd, 3rd Place Winners will be selected only from Entries. Honorable Mentions may also be selected from Exhibits.

The topic of "Fall" has multiple meanings in English, all of which are allowed. You are permitted to use the "autumn" meaning even when living in the UK. But German (or likely Pennsylvania Dutch) specific meanings are out of scope.

The photo must be taken by you and only you (you pressed the shutter button, self timer or remote shutter release).

DPREVIEW rules regarding propriety apply. Any equipment and any post-processing may be used. I'll allow the use of AI as part of processing the final image, but if you used AI, that must be disclosed and it must not substantially alter the image content and message.

Please submit your pictures as a REPLY to this post.

Please indicate clearly whether your image is an Entry or an Exhibit. An undesignated post will be considered an Exhibit.

Comments on others' photos are permitted, but try to steer clear of influencing the judge, like by pointing out non-obvious greatness or faults before the results are published.

PLEASE consider making some of your posts Entries. We seem to cycle through the same few hosts of these Challenges. New and different hosts would help keep these Challenges fun with new and different ideas, and you can make as much or as little work of the hosting as you like. Thanks!

The 1st place winner will host the next Challenge, selecting the theme. If the winner does not respond within 3 days or declines to host, the 2nd place winner becomes the host. If the second-place winner declines, the 3rd place winner becomes the host.

 

[travelfoodphoto]

From my backyard, and no pixel peeping, Dak:-;-)

 

[Dak on cam]

All taken a long while ago



2 below from Central Park





KB

I do see a lot of black and a 16:9 aspect ratio from an RX100M2. Early KBTinto…

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Dak

 

[Dak on cam]

You certainly got some mileage out of that D40!

 

[Dak on cam]

Some very fresh photographs for sure! Always nice when seasonal challenges get the cameras out, even if they have a tendency to disadvantage our Australian members.

 

[Dak on cam]

From my backyard, and no pixel peeping, Dak:-;-)

Well, there aren't all that many pixels to peep at. Those that are there don't give much cause for complaint.

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Dak

 

[travelfoodphoto]

Morning (here) Dak,

I really enjoy conversing with you! Perhaps consider instituting a new award for FPPSC (Fewest Pixels in a Photograph Submitted to a Challenge).

Den

 

[KBTinto]

Central Park




Central Park






Central Park










View from Governors Island

KB

 

[Dak on cam]

Nice shots from the town you made your home!

 

[Dak on cam]

I've been pretty occupied the last weeks so I have not been commenting much myself, and I am grateful that so many have taken up my slack and made this a lively event.

As it is now 2am where I am living, I'll save casting judgment till later in the day.

Thanks to everyone who participated, particularly with entries!

 

[Dak on cam]

went out today and took a pic for this challenge, autumn being the peak season for fungi.



Regards,
David
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened - Anatole France.

Entry or exhibit?

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Dak

 

[hwvlover]

went out today and took a pic for this challenge, autumn being the peak season for fungi.



Regards,
David
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened - Anatole France.

Entry or exhibit?

Regards,
David
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened - Anatole France.

 

[pupparazzi]

Fall has been my favorite time of year since I was a child. The weather is finally cool, the bugs are gone, everything is pretty, we fire-up the woodstove and the scent of winter (my second favorite time) is in the air. I exercise year 'round, run and train the dogs just about every day and shoot thousands of clay targets, so that I can fully enjoy this time of year. So far, my enjoyment of the fall this year has been constrained by as yet undiagnosed health issues. I will enjoy every minute of this wonderful time of year nonetheless!

Entries:

Fall here in the wooded Pennsylvania mountains is truly beautiful. Joy cooling off in a remote mountain stream while hunting ruffed grouse:



Fall in northern Michigan looks different - Bliss pointing a ruffed grouse amidst the birch whips:



Fall on the high prairie is also very different. Joy and Bliss working pheasant scent along a coulee:



Exhibits:

When I bought the land where we now live 30+ years ago, I planted a maple tree for my (now late) wife in one of the few open areas - she loved the color of the leaves. It still gets beautiful each fall in her honor:





Early Fall in the Custer-Galatian wilderness:







I love to find precursors of fall deep in our woods, because it lets me know what is coming.





I've posted this before (sorry), but it really gives a feel for Fall here. Looking out from "my" mountain in the early morning, with mist still in the valley below:









PA Dutch log farmstead in the Fall:









It's a great time to go for a ride - the little hot-rod on my lane:





Our woods themselves are spectacular - Joy on one of our trails overlooking a small high meadow:





Fall in the Clark's Fork area of the Beartooth Mountains:







Bliss cooling off in a farm pond while pheasant hunting in PA:





Fall comes early in parts of the west. Here Joy and Bliss are heading out for some mountain grouse hunting in early October:







As just an aside, in English "Fall" is pronounced "fawl". In PA Dutch (and presumably German), "Fall" is spelled the same, but pronounced very differently - as "faahll". It does not mean "autumn" in those languages.

Greg

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Check out my photos at: Greg Hartman

I absolutely love this series of photos of your dogs hunting and exploring your beautiful land. Being a Norwegian Elkhound owner, but not a hunter, I can still appreciate the abilities of your doggies. Below is a picture of my Sachee. Jack

 

[Birddogman]

Thanks, Jack! You are very kind. Joy and Bliss are a big part of my soul. I enjoy pretty much all kinds of dogs, with the possible exception of tiny, yipping ankle-biters; and the clear exception of dangerous pit-bull types. It's just that I have had Brittanies since I was a young child, so I will always have Brittanies. They are truly magic to watch worm in the field for someone who has never seen that. Plus, they are loving, devoted and intelligent pets. They are not, however, for sedentary people or urban dwellers - they like to be run for some miles every day, not walked around the block on a leash.

This is my first post on the new system, so I'm hoping to get it right.

Regards.

Greg