Made from Leaves & Sunshine

Wallpaper Description:

To me the very best thing about Autumn in Michigan is the colorful leaves! I took a break from computer hues for awhile, and used nothing but Autumn Leaves (and some sky) to make these colored designs. All of the leaves are from photographs that I took this year.

I made it my goal to have at least parts of recognizable Autumn leaves in each of these designs. Silver, Red, Sugar, and Norway maple leaves are prominent in these designs because tend to be very vividly colored. But I used many types of others also, including leaves of sassafras, beech, Eastern cottonwood, elm leaves and white and red oak leaves. If they had interesting shapes or beautiful colors, they were in!

Made From Leaves & Sunshine
This came from another photo that I took in bright sunlight. On the left and right sides of this design you can see maple leaves that are red with yellow blotches (or the other way around.) There are 2 or 3 silver maple trees in my neighborhood that happen to produce these fantastically colored leaves almost every year. I call them clown leaves. Every Fall I keep a close eye on them so that I can get some good ones.

I also recognize parts of oak leaves and some green sassafras leaves in this wall. I blurred the left hand side of this wall just a bit so that icons show up more easily.

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