Lens-Artists Challenge #368: Looking Back to #106 - Autumn

Lens-Artists Challenge #368: Looking Back to #106 - Autumn

This week it's John's turn to host the Challenge, and it's another  'Looking Back' challenge, where a member of the team picks a subject from a previous Challenge, then makes a new entry on that subject. On his blog (https://photobyjohnbo.com/2025/10/04/lens-artists-challenge-368-looking-back-to-lens-artists-challenge-106-autumn/), Journeys with Johnbo, he writes, 'With autumn fully entrenched here in North Dakota, I searched the archives for a “Fall Colors” theme. In July 2020, the team hosted a series titled “Seasons.” Patti hosted the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #106: Autumn (https://pilotfishblog.com/2020/07/18/lens-artists-photo-challenge-106-autumn/).' He continues: Now, it’s your turn to show us autumn colors. Share with us your favorite images of autumn, or if the timing is right, share some new pictures.'

This week, I took my hint for subjects for the Challenge from John’s comment about searching for a “Fall Colors” theme'. Over here in Portugal, many of the trees are still quite green, though now the autumn colours are trying to push through. I decided that I would take two cameras with me on a 'walk around the block', where I tread the fields and what remains of the woods behind our house. The first camera was an Olympus Pen E-PL2 mirrorless cameras fitted with a Holga plastic lens (with a micro four-thirds mount) and a +4 close-up filter. 

With this camera, I got some lovely autumn images of the changing leaves on the vines, which will soon fall and leave rows of bare sticks, to be trimmed and prepared for next year's grape harvest, and also of the remains of the cornfields, with unpicked cobs among dried — and as yet uncut — corn.

With the second camera I had much more fun. This was my beloved Panasonic Lumix GF1 fitted with its dedicated Panasonic 20mm f1.7 pancake lens. This particular lens was sold as faulty, so I picked it up 'for a song' compared to the price of a 'new' lens. But one the GF1 it works perfectly and I saved a fortune. For the Challenge, I fitted a 6-stop neutral density filter to the lens and concentrated on making some intentional camera movement images of the bare trees and autumn colours. 

Instead of just presenting the ICM images, I brought them back home, loaded the files into my smartphone, and glitched a few with the smartphone app GlitchLab. I should have done this properly, but my new scanning/glitching setup is not finished yet. However, with a little RGB shift here, and some channel mixing there, I hope we have a couple of real examples of 'Autumn colours'.

Themes for the Lens-Artists Challenge are posted each Saturday at 12:00 noon EST (which is 4pm, GMT) and anyone who wants to take part can post their images during the week. If you want to know more about the Challenge, details can be found here (https://photobyjohnbo.com/about-lens-artists/), and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag 'Lens-Artists'.

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