By Vladimir Brezina
After the stasis of deep Summer, when NYC’s Central Park remains, it would seem forever, darkly lush and green, there are now unmistakable signs of the end. It’s still sunny and warm, and busy insects are still feeding from the late-summer flowers. But new colors are appearing here and there, as the days now with increasing rapidity take us into Fall…
(click on any photo to start slideshow)
Late afternoon sun lights up the foliage
Patchwork of colors
Apples are ripe
Bacchanal of fruits and colors
Spiderwebs glitter everywhere in the sun
Suspicious purple
Late-summer feast
Insects flit from flower to flower
Featherlike
Flowers with a visitor
Vegetable composition
… not just vegetable, in fact
Warning colors (large milkweed bugs)
Coated with insects
Blue flower
Sunlit with spiderwebs
Red leaf
Branching plant
Yellowing leaf
Outlined in sunlight
Orange on black
Scattered sunlight
Purple silhouette
Tall and silver
Black silhouette
Insect construction
Iridescent spiderweb
These and a few more photos are here.
Vladimir Brezina (RIP) 
Johna Till Johnson
Wind Against Current 
Great series Vladimir but summer’s gone all too soon :-D
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Unfortunately so—all too soon…
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Beautiful pics, Vlad! You’ve really captured the essence of the changing seasons. I have the same orange & black bugs on my milkweed; still investigating to see if they are “good” or “bad” bugs!
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Thanks, Lynn! Of course, the true fall colors are still to come, and in NYC it might take another month for them to arrive…
Are large milkweed bugs “good” or “bad” bugs? I would guess neither, really. They don’t bite or sting. But in large numbers they will probably damage your milkweed, if you are growing it, for instance, for your monarch butterflies. And they are seriously toxic for animals to eat. See here.
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Vlad, thanks for the link! It seems that they don’t really harm the plant, just curtail self-seeding. Seems like they are doing my job for me :-)
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When there are big clusters of them, however, they seem to occur mostly right next to dead leaves, as in the photo here. They not only eat the seeds, but suck the sap, so clusters of them may do some damage…
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I love your photos and you have brought to life my favorite season, autumn, and in NY no less, wonderful. Nikki
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The true fall colors are still very much to come—in another few weeks, in NYC :-)
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Can’t wait to see what colors nature highlights this season. In New England there are a lot of gold and red colors so far.
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Here everything is always very much delayed. In the city, nothing yet to speak of.
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Beautiful colours and impressions!
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Thanks, Dina!
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Dripping with color ! Marvelous!
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Thanks so much!!
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so very beautiful!
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Thank you! :-)
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Lovely collection of photos!
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Thanks, Laurie! :-)
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Beautiful photos!
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Thank you!!
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This makes it easier to slide out of summer and slip into fall. Nice! :-)
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We do wish summer would stick around just a bit longer this year, though… ;-)
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I hear ya!
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Gorgeous photos. The rich color and sharp imagery reminds me of why Fall is my favorite season!
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Thanks, Erica! The true Fall colors are still very much to come…
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I’ll look forward to seeing more then!
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Wonderful gallery! Thanks!
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Thank you!!
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Vlad, you’ve really welcomed Fall with these beautiful pictures….
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We are sorry it’s Fall already, but nothing to be done—might as well make the best of it ;-)
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thanks – ya took me to my happy place
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Good! :-) :-)
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they were all awesome … especially the red berry one…
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The crowd favorite, it seems :-)
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Beautiful!!!!
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Thank you!!
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Beautiful change of colors to welcome the fall. We usually don’t get that until mid October here in San Diego.
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We don’t here either, actually. These are just the preliminaries—the park is still mostly green. The fall colors don’t peak here until mid-October, or in some years even late October, too, delayed by a couple of weeks from the way it goes even just a few miles up the river by NYC’s urban heat effect…
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Beautiful!
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Thanks so much!!
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Vladimir, You have quite the eye and talent. Thank you for such passionate work. Your travels are touching lives many-fold. The raw and natural elements of your photographs provide a view our Earth’s beauty in forms we seldom behold – making one stop and think. Perfect.
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Thank you so much, Joan, for that lovely compliment!! :-)
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