Sticking It Out

This week my Auntie said to me, i have to take a picture of what Autumn means to me, so we thought and thought about it, you could go for the obvious, above. Where you have the contrasting colours of the fallen leaves, yet with the bright green showing through. You can take this quite literally, so being the great niece i am, i took the photograph for her, i edited it a little, just to enhance the already present natural beauty. But with this i carried on think, what is autumn to me? To me, Autumn is about sticking it out, its not quite hot, yet its not quite cold. Everything in nature around you is starting to suffer, knowing that winter is near. Its about sticking together, and waiting for the storm that we know is just around the corner, yet we never give up. There's the winter and the Christmas time to look forward to, the beginning of a New-Year is in sight, yet its not quite as reachable as one may like. So from this i had the conundrum, how on earth do i photograph this? the answer simply came to me, I may not be able to show the unity in a way that possibly makes everyone think, THAT'S AUTUMN. I photograph what i see that says Autumn, and that is unity, that's my family, taking a picture of all my family would be ridiculous, so, i took a picture of the garden, where i grew up, where we congregate in the summer as a family, where we all play in the snow, where we all have so many memories. Where my family becomes a unit of fun, laughter and joy. That's what Autumn is to me!