On this Fall day amidst gusty winds, I found myself frantically shooting at very high shutter speeds, trying to "freeze" the movement of tree branches and leaves. After trying many camera settings - none of them optimal in my mind - I settled down and decided to stop "fighting" nature. I thought about packing up and moving down the road, when it instead occurred to me to shoot a series of abstract photos embracing the sense of movement in the strong autumn winds and the change of seasons. This Image was captured through a slight horizontal camera movement, using a tripod with a loosely adjusted ball head, in a brief time exposure.

Original photo of this scene, from a pond near Hart Prairie Road, Flagstaff, Arizona: Autumn Reflections