The Raph Round-up: October 2025

And so Autumn rolls in, transforming life.

Change is in the air (literally)

With temperatures dropping to the low teens and the days shortening, we’re well and truly in the midst of Autumn:

Autumn shift 1.
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Autumn shift 2.
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Yellow.
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Early October.
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Late October.
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Autumn’s splendour.
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Untitled.
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Journey.
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The last flower.
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Fisheye

I picked up a new lens – a 6mm(!) circular fisheye with a whopping 220 degrees field of view. It’s a lot of fun to use, and a real challenge to embrace the distortion when composing shots (and keeping your fingers out of the frame, which I didn’t manage to do on some of the shots 😆).

On the train.
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Quite hard to not have your fingers in the frame with 220 degrees of vision..
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Hareskov (Autumn edition)

It’s a joy coming back to a location and seeing it transform as the seasons change. Here I took advantage of an unusually sunny day to visit Hareskov again (last time I visited in the peak of summer). Had a great day capturing the yellows of Autumn, and getting low to the ground to capture some of the smaller features in the forest.

Forest breakthrough.
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Forest breakthrough (fisheye edition)
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Forest traveller.
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Forest conifers.
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Forest floor.
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Tiny forest.
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Forest reflected on the shiny cap.
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Same mushroom as above, but this time I took a series of images (8) at different focus points, then combined them into one (a focus stack). You can see how shallow the depth of focus is in the previous image.
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Forest spider.
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Forest clover.
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Forest giant.
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ICM in the forest

While this acronym may sound like a recreational drug, and the resulting images may look a tad trippy, ICM stands for Intentional Camera Movement, and is a photographic technique whereby blur is introduced by moving the camera while the shutter open. I honestly had a LOT of fun taking these shots, and really like how some of them came out.

ICM1.
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ICM2.
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ICM3.
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Photo of the month

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Forest Matrix.
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Interesting things I’ve read/watched

Some amazing macro/micro photography.

Hank Green’s based diatribe about Sora2.