Changing

Utterly gorgeous!

gold!

This is full-on autumn, a real frame-filler. I notice that you used a digital camera whereas most of the recent photographs you have posted were originally via film. And being a bit forensic on occasions, I found your reply to a comment that 'Although shooting in film teaches you to conceive and execute your shots more carefully, digital shooting inspires less care.'
Well, yes: and if you used a field camera you'd take the greatest care on account of the cost. From my point of view that is what it boils down to: cost. I find digital liberating. I make pictures I know I'd never make if I had a film camera.

Cost is for sure a factor. When I got my first digital camera, I found it, as you say, liberating, and I believe that the attendant freedom to experiment and to see immediately the results accelerated my growth as a photographer. What seduced me back to film was the appeal of old cameras and lenses, many of which could be purchased for a pittance. Then I began to notice differences in film from digital photos, textural differences mainly. Nowadays I go back and forth from digital to film cameras, considering the subject and what kind of photograph that subject might best be served by. Digital remains my primary mode. Film is, well, a luxury.