Bird's Nest with Autumn Colour. Red. Orange. Colour Challenge. Ephemeral Art. Original Photography.

Turning Season.
A heart absorbing the light.
With bright and muted autumn reds:
Deep browns and golden tans:
Come to rest. In a tiny nest.
A haven of solitude.
And peace.
~Ally.

Even as I'm decluttering my studio, I sometimes ~ More like all the time ~ Feel the yearning to do something creative. This past week in Sydney has been exceptionally divine, weather-wise: Chilly, but such beautifully star-filled skies at night: And the light, touching the natural world and filtering through my studio window has been absolutely magical. A joy to be alive.

After quite heavy rain early in the week, my suburban environment was absolutely magicalized by alternating fine misty rain and sunshowers for a few days. A great time for a photographer to be out-of-doors.

By Wednesday I started photographing some of the 'Autumn Magic' for #WednesdayWalk: The spirit of Autumn was so bewitching that I continued looking up into and photographing the boughs of some of the local deciduous trees for the remainder of the week.

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The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. ~Nikola Tesla.

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An accessible Japanese Maple Tree.

And then, in only a few days, all the Autumn colour just about vanished. The red and golden beauty was so very fleeting.

However just before all the leaves had fallen, I found what I had hoped to find ~ An accessible Japanese Maple tree with fine leaves of bright and dark red, orange and tan.

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Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. ~Nikola Tesla.

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This week.

This week I hope to share with you:

• An Autumn Wednesday Walk: Looking up into the arms of some of our beautifully coloured deciduous trees.
• Some new Ephemeral Art pieces: Inspired by Autumn leaves.
• A new range of paper mache containers: Embedded with Autumn Leaves.

Today.

A few days ago while reading Silvia Beneforti's article Cleaning the backyard I was reminded of all the abandoned bird's nests I have collected.

I only have one very small bird's nest now and today I felt a nudge from my Creative Muse to decorate it with some of the autumn leaves I've collected over the past few days.

Minimalist Design.

I love simple minimalist design but somehow it has always alluded me in my own design work. I wanted to keep Bird's Nest with Autumn Colour very simple and so I deliberately didn't add anything else to the white background. It was very tempting to scatter some more leaves and seeds, berries and crystals all around the arrangement. But after designing Autumn Reds I could see that an unembellished white background can bring all the nuances of red to life ~ Which was also my aim with this piece.

Be alone: That is the secret of invention: Be alone, that is when ideas are born. ~Nikola Tesla.

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We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being. ~Hermann Hesse.

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A heart that is holding infinite possibilities.
A creative who is learning to trust the mystery of what will be.
A spirit that is willing to fly into new creative realms and share the journey. ~Ally.

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Ephemeral Art and Photography: ©Alison Lee Cousland.
SONY Mark2 A7.

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