With experience, it becomes clear that colour in an autumn scene affects the location at multiple levels. As you walk up to a location you’re immediately struck by the breadth of the colour range, and the scope of the change that has taken place, in a relatively short time. Even if you’ve never visited that spot before, you can see from the trees present how the seasonal change will have metamorphosed the environment. Then, once you look more closely, you can see how on a small scale colour can be seen to interact at a local level.
Even an array of fallen leaves on a path, all of different shades of red, yellow and orange, can create a beautiful vignette of the greater scene. From this realisation it’s possible to…