While the trees in England are a picture this weekend we have been promised storms from Monday which should denude those trees which already have turned. Yet a good half of the trees are still fully leafed and show no signs of turning. Perhaps 'climate change' [pace another thread] is going to stagger autumn here.
However, the biggest downer on golf course photography (at least in my part of England) is the fact that almost every course is saturated, if not waterlogged. I played at Conwy on Tuesday. It should be a brown, burnt-up links with sand all the way to Australia. In over thirty years of Conwy golf I have never known it so green with bunkers full of water, slippery, soggy tees, casual water here, there and everywhere and, worst of all, you have to pitch it all the way to the green....No pitch and run. This is no criticism of Conwy greenkeeping staff, but simply a reflection on the fact that there have been two dreadful summers in succession and endless rain in between. I photographed a local course last week and many of the pictures are unusable simply because of the extent of casual water and water-filled bunkers. To fly over England at the moment reveals just how much water there is just below the surface.