Experimentation

I was photographing the fall leaves the other day, trying different compositions. The light was low because it was late in the day, so I put the camera on a tripod. I was just making "straight" photographs when it occurred to me that I don't experiment very much. So I started fooling around with longer exposures, then started moving the branch in the middle of the exposure to see what I could do. I made a lot of exposures, and this is a favorite - some movement, but yet you still know what the subject is. I should be more "loose" in my shooting and experiment more.