We've nearly reached the end of October, and there are still lots of tired green leaves hanging onto the trees. Much of this month's weather was mild. But we're now feeling colder temperatures along with gray skies and drizzle. We may yet get more nice colors in November.
The leaves vary somewhat, but we haven't yet arrived at the time when you can just point your camera up and automatically get gorgeous pictures. The first three photos posted here give a sense of how the canopy beneath the trees looks (not to mention the broader vistas).
Not exactly dreamy looking. What this Autumn requires is some "imagination" ... and the help of the digital art tools of JJStudios. But digital art based on photographs has been changing rapidly during the 2020s, as the tools have been getting a complete makeover. Apps that I have worked with for years are getting suped up with new A.I. features that usually don't deliver what they promise, but that can spit out some unusual (even "trippy") shape-and-color variations.
The project of digital art is changing, and I don't know exactly what I'm supposed to do to make something interesting (at least, interesting to me) with the bright and sometimes garish images that scarcely resemble the original photos I began with or the scenes that inspired them.
But there are possibilities. Images can be remixed from using a variety of filters and manual adjustments. There may be more scope for the imagination, if I can learn how to control these constantly changing prisms of style, color, and texture.
In any case, Autumn demands color. And we shall have color for our October 2025 virtual gallery. Some of these are funnier than others, all of them are "experimental," but none of them were simply products of the technology. I put time, effort, and significant constructive work into these pictures, trying to make something "different" with the materials that the tech made available to me. So here we go — Autumn “With a Boost,” October 2025:
