Happy Thanksgiving and Farewell to Autumn-2024

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Every year, a new layer of leaves is deposited on the ground, nurturing the earth and freeing space for a spring rebirth. Life feeds off death and thrives on the continuous renewal of its forms. As humans, we are in a unique position of being able to notice it. Maybe that’s what we are here for: to bear witness and to become aware of the silent sorrow of all living things as they are called on to leave this beautiful world.

Thanksgiving marks the farewell to autumn in the Central Valley of California. To honor the season, I made the featured image. It is an off camera composite based on three photographs I took while on a walk at the UC Davis Arboretum with a photographer friend. I stacked the images in photoshop, in layers, and played with their opacities until I achieved the desired effect.

Wishing my followers in the USA a Thanksgiving filled with food, joy and love.

In this holiday season, don’t forget to hug those you love and to tell them how important they are to you. Resolve issues, forgive, make peace. Life is short, it goes fast and no one is guaranteed tomorrow.

Below, a few more images of Autumn.

A SALES PITCH for tomorrow and Cyber Monday: As many of you know, I have a Pixels portfolio. Pixels is offering a 25% discount in all wall art Friday Nov 29 and Monday, Dec 2nd. The link to the portfolio is below, under “Wall Art landscapes and miscellaneous”.

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10 responses to “Happy Thanksgiving and Farewell to Autumn-2024”

  1. Earl Avatar

    Have a Happy Thanksgiving! The autumn images are lovely.

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    1. Alessandra Chaves Avatar

      🙏

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  2. Steve Schwartzman Avatar

    A happy Thanksgiving to you, amiga. Your meditation on time and the passage of the season, along with your pretty photographs, calls up a poem by Robert Frost.

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    1. Alessandra Chaves Avatar

      It is true that nothing gold can stay. The good part is, bad times also don’t last forever, although they sometimes seem to.

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  3. Anne Sandler Avatar

    Beautiful images and narrative Alessandra.

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    1. Alessandra Chaves Avatar

      Thank you.

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  4. shoreacres Avatar

    Your first image suggests leaves collecting in layers in a clear, slow-flowing stream. It’s so beautiful: evocative of a few sights I’ve seen in limestone bedded rivers farther west here in Texas. I hope you day was as peaceful and pleasant as these photos!

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    1. Alessandra Chaves Avatar

      Thank you very much.

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  5. howg2211 Avatar
    howg2211

    Happy Thanksgiving Alessandra. Love the composite and the images that follow. Couldn’t agree with your closing words more.

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    1. Alessandra Chaves Avatar

      Thank you.

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