04/12/2025
Final little vignette 🍄🟫🍂🍁
Finally sharing some of these from a little Tassie personal project of mine exploring the seasons - Tasmanian Autumn featuring a gathering of Autumn artefacts.
Autumn
If you ask a Tasmanian what happens in Autumn, it’s likely they will mention ‘the turning of the Fagus’ I quickly learnt that the Fagus tree (Nothofagus gunnii) is Australia’s only native cold climate winter deciduous tree, it possesses a stunning small ribbed leaf that in autumn turns all colours of golden, red, yellow as it sheds its leaves for the cold winter. People take the annual pilgrimage from far and wide to glimpse. I had to see this for myself and managed to get permission to photograph a few leaves in my home studio for my autumn collecting last year.
Tasmanian Autumn also means golden light and stunning sunsets. It means mushroom foraging. I found two different fungi that popped up in my patch of dirt. The ‘earth star’ fungi is found worldwide in dry woodlands, and the other pictured is the tall ‘Oudemansiella gigaspora’ has a beautiful wet look on its cap.
Autumn also means ripe wild rosehips lining the side of the road. And delicious gooseberries are ready for the taking. Passionfruit also comes into its full ripeness. The shadows cast in this image come from some flowering casuarina / she oak leaves that came into flower in Autumn on my property.
