Too Soon

One of the trees in the village had started turning colour in late August, which is too soon for my tastes. We don't seem to have had a decent summer, and the trees are already thinking of Autumn.

Still these fabulous colours are worth looking at, captured with the venerable Olympus E-1.



Perhaps that is the E-1's strong point: It does colours and textures well, but its five megapixels can't match the excellent E620 for detail. Equally that has average build quality and a poor viewfinder compared with the E-1.






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