We had a lot of wind the other day (close to tornado conditions) and a good many leaves came down.  The hickory and some of the maple trees are nearly bare but the oak and sycamore leaves are hanging on.

Here are some leaf images from this autumn I haven’t used yet in these posts.

No texture there except what was in the leaf which was suspended on a thread from a spider’s web.  Unfortunately the thread is not visible.

More surface tension.  Expect to see more of these, I find them fascinating.

I was supposed to be photographing something else when I saw this.  Sometimes I’m grateful for a limited attention span.

This is one of my (recent) favorites.  It is a straight photograph superimposed on the output of a leaf scanned in a flat bed scanner.

Here are a couple more leaves that I ran through the flat bed scanner.  Notice they are three dimensional; the lid of the scanner was left up so they didn’t get flattened.  This is the leaf (a day later) that was scanned and used as the background in the image above.

I especially like the three dimensionality.

And here is one final image.  This started out as a standard digital photograph and textures were added.