Gersh Photo Post | Max Gersh | Multimedia Photojournalist

It isn’t usual for me to take “Fall color” pictures. In fact, I can’t think of a time I did other than last year…and that didn’t really count because that was in my front yard.

This year, I felt compelled to try since I never really put forth any effort into capturing the beauty of the season. I drove out to the massive cemetery at Jefferson Barracks. This is the first time I’ve been to a cemetery since I went to Miles Mausoleum in Illinois.

Without further ado, here are a handful of the images I made today:

Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh

Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh

Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh

Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh

Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh

Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh

Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh

Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh

Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh

Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh

Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh

Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh

Fall colors at Jefferson Barracks © 2009 Max Gersh

For what it’s worth, I don’t normally do the dutch angle thing (the slanted image in the photo above) but I kind of liked the way this one turned out.

***Please forgive the somewhat heavy JPEG compression. I only realized that I had my compression settings improperly set after I uploaded them all and I don’t feel like going back through them all again.***

When did they all come down? The leaves that is.

It seems like it was just yesterday when the grass was green. That is probably because many of the leaves started falling yesterday (or at least not too long ago). When I woke up this morning and stepped outside, I noticed that this car got bombarded with leaves overnight.

Ok. So it wasn’t completely “bombarded” but it did stand out more than any other car on the block. Red leaves on a black car. It made the mistake of parking under the tree in my front yard.

The crazy weather is confusing the plants. First we had temperatures below freezing that triggered the leaves to fall. Then it warms back up and the green fights back. I think the leaves are blocking the sunlight and killing the grass.

Oh well. I love all the color. It is a photographers dream!I can’t really complain about the 60 degree weather.