Fall Season in an Old-Growth Forest

Still searching for aesthetic patterns in the "mess" of an old-growth forest.

Comments and suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.

superb exposure, very good use of light. i like all this kind of green

And a lovely "mess" it is too!  I really like the diagonal of yellow leaves from lower-right to upper-left.  The eye tracks right along that diagonal as it traverses the frame.  Well seen.  Cheers!  Chris

It actually looks to me like nature organized itself quite well. Like a yellow spiral staircase going up the central tree. I like the delicate lighting on the foreground tree. Nature often provides us with designs. We just have to be keen enough to see it and frame it. You did that here. It's a not-over-the-top fall photographic. More internal than just a hollow wow.

Steve, this is an excellent example of 'chaos tamed'. The yellow spiral sings but the accompanists play an excellent part. The other green foliage and the trunks all contribute significantly.

I KNOW I would have stopped to photograph this scene.  Whether I would have succeeded to the extent that you have is another question altogether.  Love the forest colours and the bark textures.   Best, LM.

This scene and the way you have interpreted it is very moving. It is probably a type of environment that man lived in and knew intimately for the first many hundreds of thousands of years of his evolution. The strong, perfectly upright and massive trees which live, reproduce and die on a geological time scale, seem so much more permanent than the gentle swing of branches and leaves that create an impressive physical contrast. Thanks for revealing this common yet mot so common face of nature.