Coming back from the British Museum, through Russel Square, I suddenly saw this and knew I had to take a picture in the low autumn afternoon light.
Once again, this was taken with my simple point and shoot Canon G12 with no preparation. It is a tribute to the quality of the processor that this was sorted out without my interference. All I did was a little cropping to get rid of unwanted foreground.
I like this picture for many reasons. It look good to me, and the light in the early Autumn leaves catches their living quality before they drop. The long shadows and the slight off-symmetry give a vanishing point pretty much in the middle but a bit off.. I still am a great advocate for the symmetrical picture, despite what the books might say. We can wonder about the people sat on the grass: what are they doing, and why do they have time to sit out in the late afternoon sun. If you can enlarge the picture, it is more complex than it seems.
The motto here is always carry a camera (other than the one in your phone).
