Leafy Rainbow

While I've been spending much of the last two months in various concert halls, the rest of you out there were experiencing Autumn and all of its wonderful colours.  I did take a moment to do so as well.  On our numerous walks, The Heir Apparent and I would always keep our eyes open looking for the perfect leaf.  It's a lot harder than one would think.  We found many all over the ground, but they were either missing pieces, had some dark discoloration or unwanted creases.  But just before Halloween, we finally did find what we were looking for.  It was a huge maple leaf and had a nice mix of yellow, green, brown and red to it.  The Heir Apparent was tasked with keeping it nice and safe on our walk home and then we took a nice picture of it after we warmed up a little bit.  The photograph was taken at f/7.1, 1/100sec, ISO 400 at 70mm with some flash bounced off of the ceiling.  It's always nice to see Mother Nature put her colours on display.  The leaves are pretty much all gone here now, but they were nice to look at while they were here.