Taking a different spin on Fall colors, for me, since I live in the wet and cool Pacific Northwest. My boyfriend took me on a very special birthday trip to New Orleans the week before Halloween, and while we were there, we went on a swamp tour. The temperature while we were there was in the mid-80s, but evidently this was cool enough (combined with shorter days) to prompt the cypress trees to turn colors, albeit more subtly than the maple and oak trees in my home region. In my first picture, I focused on the Spanish Moss, which is an air plant that lives abundantly on the cypress trees, and is the source of the "horse hair" that was used to stuff most antique furniture. Both photos taken with a Nikon D90, 18-105mm kit lens, on "Auto" settings. These are 2 of 204 photos taken on a 90-minute swamp tour.
-Erin Enemark
