Enjoy these fall colors for Halloween

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I don’t have any scary monsters to show you for Halloween. Or carved pumpkins. Or skeletons half buried in the backyard. Halloween happens to be my least favorite “holiday”. Sure, you get tons of candy and kids have a lot of fun trick or treating, but the decorations are just creepy, and I speak from personal experience. I set up a giant spiderweb at my front door, along with a very large plastic black widow tangled in it, and I can’t stand spiders. I really love my kids but first thing November 1 morning, that thing is coming down.

I still have it on my list to visit a large pumpkin patch and manage to snap a few good, colorful pictures. In the meantime, I’ll show you more of the beautiful foliage the sumac tree has to offer in San Diego in the fall. I need to go back to this location very soon and take some new pictures. I love the colors on the photos below but I need to work on the framing and the angles. With a little effort, I hope I’ll end up with something really good to show you.

In the meantime, these photos will have to do! Remember you can click on each sumac tree photo below for a larger view.

Fall foliage - sumac tree — Fall foliage – sumac tree

Fall foliage - colorful sumac — Fall foliage – colorful sumac

Fall foliage in San Diego - yellow and orange leaves, red seeds of the sumac tree — Fall foliage in San Diego – yellow and orange leaves, red seeds of the sumac tree

October 31, 2012February 7, 2020 by Milka Pejovic Categories: California Photos, Photos of San Diego, Tree PhotosTags: California pictures, fall foliage, foliage in San Diego, orange sumac leaves, photography, photos, photos of trees, San Diego, San Diego fall trees, San Diego foliage, sumac berries, sumac foliage, sumac leaves, sumac seeds, sumac tree, trees, yellow sumac leaves 9 Comments

9 thoughts on “Enjoy these fall colors for Halloween”

Do you do something to enhance the blue of the sky, or is the sky around you really that blue? So gorgeous.

mpejovic says:

Oct 31, 2012 at 11:56 am

The sky is definitely not that blue all the time and a lot has to do with the sunlight that day, and the angle it comes in. Today the sky is almost white, yuck!

But I do use a polarizing filter or polarize in Photoshop often, to get rid of the washed out look a digital camera can have sometimes, even in manual setting. If you wear polarized sunglasses, you’ll know what I’m talking about. Your own eyes can’t always compensate for the extreme sunlight and things look very bright. Put the glasses on and you can see a lot better, even though the colors are not really changed much.

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- Carrie Rubin says:
  
  Oct 31, 2012 at 12:06 pm
  
  Interesting to know. And I feel better, too because the Cleveland skies near me are rarely that pretty. 🙂
  
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  - mpejovic says:
    
    Oct 31, 2012 at 12:31 pm
    
    Most point-and-shoot cameras in automatic setting let way too much light in. If you have a free or cheap photo editing software, all you have to do is adjust the levels or brightness, and your pictures will look a lot nicer in seconds.
    
    The summer months here are the worst for blue skies. The heat washes out the blue and we also get a lot of haze.
    
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    - Carrie Rubin says:
      
      Oct 31, 2012 at 12:47 pm
      
      I never edit my photos. I could do so much more than I do. Then again, I haven’t printed any out for ages. I really need to get on that…
    - mpejovic says:
      
      Oct 31, 2012 at 1:18 pm
      
      I don’t print much either, and it’s a shame. But a little editing goes a long way to make things look the way you actually saw them.