May Theme: More autumn colours

A belated May theme and continuing with last month's theme?? Tsk!

What can I say? I hadn't announced the May theme but I've known for ages what it was going to be and sohave taken hundreds of photos in anticipation of choosing 10 for AMIAM.

Again, I'm sticking to the Liquid Amber tree. I can't believe what an amazing range of colours and patterns this single tree gets! Truly, truly gorgeous!

Enjoy! :-)
Reed.

May Theme: 'Scapes

So a wee bit late with introducing my theme for May, but better late than never etc etc. 

Part of the reason for the delay (besides the usual life-getting-in-the-way one) is that I couldn't quite decide what the theme should be. It needs a balance between being not-too-difficult to produce (real life having a tendency to gobble up much of my time) and yet still being interesting for me (what can I say, I'm difficult). 

In the end, this month's theme decided itself for me. It wedged itself into my brain before I even knew I'd committed myself to it. 

And the theme is: 'scapes!

As in: land~scapes, sea~scapes, mountain~scapes, urban~scapes... And so on. 

(Probably be looking to escape the word by month' end too! Ha!)

The word actually comes from academia, and Professor Arjun Appadurai, who, back in the 1990s, came up with a very creative way of describing different aspects of globalisation: ethnoscapes, financescapes, ideascapes, mediascapes, and technoscapes ... They refer of course to the global circulation respectively of people, capital, ideas, media, technology ... (Look him up: Appadurai, 1992). 

I'm taking a sensible academic idea and running it in silly directions, with apologies to academics and wordsmiths, alike. 

Enjoy.