Late season foliage- Many photographers look for peak color, I find that just after beak offers some very vibrant hues, particularly late in the afternoon. I look along rivers or ponds, which allow for the added dimension of reflections. One good tip is to shoot with a "cloudy" setting on your DSLR's white balance. This will warm the tones even further than the setting sun. Look for leaves that have fallen into the water with the blue sky reflected on the waters surface. First frost will be soon, get up early with you macro lens and shoot some crystals on your garden flowers. Milkweed and burdocks look really cool with frost in the morning sun, try backlighting the frost to get an effect that looks like diamonds over the foliage. I sometime will use a telephoto lens to isolate one or two frost covered plantings. Throw the background out of focus with a wide open aperture. The image at left was taken at Little Pond in Plymouth's Morton Park with a Canon DSLR and a 300 mm telephoto. ISOwas 200 and white balance was set at cloudy.