Not without a reason the Canadian flag bears a dark red, geometrically stylized, symmetric maple leaf. Its colour is the rather realistic autumn colour of the leaves of the Canadian maple trees, omnipresent particularly in the Eastern provinces: New Brunswick, Québec and Ontario.

The usually sunny Canadian fall is breathtakingly charming; in the east it is somewhat longer and perhaps more colourful than in the west. It is ravishing to everybody, people are enraptured with its colours. Autumn has been a frequent subject for Canadian painters, in particular in the paintings of Tom Thomson in the years 1910-1917 and those of the members of the Group of Seven in the years 1920-1932.

I have also been bewitched with the magic of the Canadian fall. Autumn has become one of the main subjects in my colour photography, more frequently as close-ups than as broad landscapes.

For the last fifteen years I have been taking pictures of the Canadian fall in Québec, Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. For all those years, I have built quite a collection of such photographs.

As an extension of the Internet gallery of my older black and white photographs, I now present on the Internet a new gallery - "Canadian Fall" - my colour photographs on this theme. The URL address of this gallery is:

Andrew M. Kobos